#1192 lead to the following error for me on Archlinux:
`TASK [matrix-base : Install host dependencies] *******************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [matrix.***.de]: FAILED! => changed=false
msg: |-
failed to install systemd-timesyncd: error: target not found: systemd-timesyncd`
There is no package called `systemd-timesyncd` on Archlinux. The service is installed with the [`systemd`](https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/systemd/) package itself.
I suggest removing the `systemd-timesyncd` from 2453876eb9/roles/matrix-base/tasks/server_base/setup_archlinux.yml (L7)
Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/pull/963
This also simplifies Prerequisites, which is great.
It'd be nice if we were doing these checks in some optional manner
and reporting them as helpful messages (using
`matrix_playbook_runtime_results`), but that's more complicated.
I'd rather drop these checks completely.
These are just defensive cleanup tasks that we run.
In the good case, there's nothing to kill or remove, so they trigger an
error like this:
> Error response from daemon: Cannot kill container: something: No such container: something
and:
> Error: No such container: something
People often ask us if this is a problem, so instead of always having to
answer with "no, this is to be expected", we'd rather eliminate it now
and make logs cleaner.
In the event that:
- a container is really stuck and needs cleanup using kill/rm
- and cleanup fails, and we fail to report it because of error
suppression (`2>/dev/null`)
.. we'd still get an error when launching ("container name already in use .."),
so it shouldn't be too hard to investigate.
This removes some `multi-target.wants` symlinks as well, etc.
But despite systemd saying:
> Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/matrix-synapse.service.wants/matrix-synapse-worker@appservice:0.service
.. I still see such symlinks tehre for me for some reason, so keeping the
code (below) to find & delete them still seems like a good idea.
Fixes https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/756
Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/737
I feel like timers are somewhat more complicated and dirty (compared to
cronjobs), but they come with these benefits:
- log output goes to journald
- on newer systemd distros, you can see when the timer fired, when it
will fire, etc.
- we don't need to rely on cron (reducing our dependencies to just
systemd + Docker)
Cronjobs work well, but it's one more dependency that needs to be
installed. We were even asking people to install it manually
(in `docs/prerequisites.md`), which could have gone unnoticed.
Once in a while someone says "my SSL certificates didn't renew"
and it's likely because they forgot to install a cron daemon.
Switching to systemd timers means that installation is simpler
and more unified.
Raspbian doesn't seem to support arm64, so this is somewhat pointless
right now.
However, they might in the future. Doing this should also unify us
some more with `setup_debian.yml` with the ultimate goal of
eliminating `setup_raspbian.yml`.
Until now, we've only supported non-amd64 on Raspbian.
Seems like there are now people running Debian/Ubuntu on ARM,
so we were forcing them into amd64 Docker packages.
I've gotten a report that this change fixes support
for Ubuntu Server 20.04 on RPi 4B.
Slavi Pantaleev
Jan
sakkiii
Dan Arnfield
oxmie
Blaž Tomažič
Aaron Raimist
Yannick Goossens
Peetz0r
Béla Becker
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