if it's a failed service, you might need systemctl reset-failed On 7 October 2015 at 13:43, Łukasz Michalski <lm@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> ● vboxvmservice@A.service - VBox Virtual Machine A Service >>> Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/vboxvmservice@.service; enabled; >>> vendor preset: disabled) >>> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2015-10-01 12:02:49 >>> CEST; 4 >>> days ago >>> Main PID: 15101 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) >>> >>> How to mak systemd forget about this service? I checked >>> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ and there is no link for my >>> service. >>> >> >> If you change, add or remove service files: >> $ systemctl daemon-reload >> >> And you may need to stop the service as Florian wrote. >> >> > systemctl disable is not making this service disabled. The first call to > "systemctl disable vboxvmservice@A" removed a link from > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ correctly. > > daemon-reload does not help. > > I suspect that reboot will get rid of it but on server I would not like to > reboot just because systemctl shows failure of non existent service. > > Regards, > Łukasz > -- damjan