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Where is the service file located on your system?
Did you create it with
sudo systemctl edit --force --full
, or did you use a text editor (or was it automatically generated by an installer)?I made the file this way.
Cd /etc/systemd/system && touch spotifyd.service
Sudo nano -l spotifyd.service
Wrote, saved and quit. Then the commands above. I havent tried sudo systemctl edit —force —full
You surely need to explicitly cause
systemd
to process changes after writing to a file. I would be very surprised if it reacted to file system changes automatically.For example, I recall that I need to execute a command like
systemctl daemon-reload
after editing aservice
file: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/364782/what-does-systemctl-daemon-reload-doYou might get more useful information from resources like https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/systemctl.1.html
My knowledge is limited, but you should be using that command to create service files, from what I understand. There's some extra stuff that happens in the background (like putting symlinks in the correct places) after you write out the changes using that command.