Re: [RAUC] Rauc won't start

Re: [RAUC] Rauc won't start

[Jan Lübbe via RAUC]

On Thu, 2025-12-18 at 10:05 +0000, Robert Harakaly via RAUC wrote:
> 
> Hello Everybody,
> I'm working on a project that uses RAUC as an update agent for our embedded linux device. For development and testing of D-Bus communication,
> I tried to install RAUC on my Linux computer as well as on a RPi device. In both cases I have the same error message:

Note that the service is only used on systems where you want to install updates.

> raspberrypi:~ $ sudo rauc service
> rauc-Message: 09:44:40.507: Using central status file /tmp/data/central.raucs
> rauc-Message: 09:44:40.508: Using system config file /etc/rauc/system.conf
> rauc-event-Message: 09:44:40.508: Service restarted
> 
> Failed to obtain name de.pengutronix.rauc on system bus

You can increase logging verbosity be following [1].

> I use Raspbian OS and Ubuntu on RPi and on my computer respectively and I install RAUC from the distribution deb package (version 1.13).
> I suspect some misconfiguration in relation to D-Bus, but I do not see where the problem may be. 
> 
> 
> Can somebody advise me ?

Also take a look at what the D-Bus daemon is logging. Perhaps the D-Bus policy
[2] is not installed correctly?


Regards,
Jan

[1] https://rauc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#increasing-debug-verbosity
[2] https://github.com/rauc/rauc/blob/master/data/de.pengutronix.rauc.conf

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