Fedora 36, plocate-1.1.15-3.fc36.x86_64, systemd-250.8-1.fc36.x86_64 /usr/lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.service has ConditionACPower=true because they don't want updatedb to run when on a laptop battery. Now, my machine is an Intel NUC which has an Intel mobile chipset but is very definitely not a laptop. It doesn't have a battery and always runs off AC power. But ... $ sudo systemctl status plocate-updatedb.service |& cat ○ plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/plocate-updatedb.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) TriggeredBy: ● plocate-updatedb.timer Condition: start condition failed at Fri 2022-08-05 10:29:57 BST; 5min ago └─ ConditionACPower=true was not met Aug 03 14:59:37 dev5 systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionACPower=true). Aug 04 09:29:21 dev5 systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionACPower=true). Aug 05 10:29:35 dev5 systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionACPower=true). Aug 05 10:29:57 dev5 systemd[1]: plocate-updatedb.service - Update the plocate database was skipped because of a failed condition check (ConditionACPower=true). Looking at systemd sources it seems as if ConditionACPower is checked here: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/14e7bc2e77d2699498a1f74d7e4f905f11eca335/src/shared/udev-util.c#L662 It's a bit hard to follow what the code is doing, but I think it's looking in /sys for power_supply devices. This hardware has two, both with type == USB. (I believe these are the two USB ports on the front panel that can provide power to other devices, they cannot power the machine itself.) $ ll /sys/devices/platform/USBC000:00/power_supply total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 0 Aug 3 09:00 ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:001 drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 0 Aug 3 09:00 ucsi-source-psy-USBC000:002 $ cat /sys/devices/platform/USBC000:00/power_supply/*/type USB USB $ cat /sys/devices/platform/USBC000\:00/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000\:00*/device/typec/port*/power_role [sink] [sink] [sink] [sink] $ cat /sys/devices/platform/USBC000\:00/power_supply/ucsi-source-psy-USBC000\:00*/online 0 0 Anyway, I think this is a systemd bug, right? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue