Even with "-q nodev0" the service ends up in a failed state (but now
with an exit status of 0/SUCCESS)
sudo systemctl status smartmontools
× smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART)
Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smartmontools.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: protocol) since Tue 2023-06-13 03:07:54 CEST; 2s
ago
Docs: man:smartd(8)
man:smartd.conf(5)
Process: 4072 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smartd -n $smartd_opts (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 4072 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Status: "No devices to monitor"
CPU: 29ms
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule systemd[1]: Starting smartmontools.service - Self
Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon...
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule smartd[4072]: smartd 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338
[aarch64-linux-6.2.0-rc3-meson64] (local build)
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule smartd[4072]: Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen,
Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule smartd[4072]: Opened configuration file
/etc/smartd.conf
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule smartd[4072]: Drive: DEVICESCAN, implied '-a'
Directive on line 21 of file /etc/smartd.conf
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule smartd[4072]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was
parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule smartd[4072]: In the system's table of devices NO
devices found to scan
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule systemd[1]: smartmontools.service: Failed with result
'protocol'.
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule smartd[4072]: Unable to monitor any SMART enabled
devices. Try debug (-d) option. Exiting...
juin 13 03:07:54 hercule systemd[1]: Failed to start smartmontools.service -
Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon.
My storage as of now is only EMMC and SD. Though at time I can have
external USB HDDs to monitor with smartd.
Cheers,
Alban
On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:41:10 +0200 Christian Franke
<christian.fra...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Possible fix for the package: Add '-q nodev0' or '-q never' to
ExecStart
> in smartmontools.service.
>
> Workaround for users: Add one of these to smartd_opts in
> /etc/default/smartmontools.
>
> Option '-q nodev0' is available since smartmontools 7.3. Then smartd
> will exit with status 0 instead of 17 (default '-q nodev') if there
are
> no devices to monitor. Systemd should no longer report this as a
failed
> service.
>
> With '-q never', smartd will keep running and does nothing. This was
the
> default for '-q' in some previous versions of (only!) the Debian
> package. This Debian-specific patch was reverted later, see:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1006630
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian
> smartmontools.org
>
>
>
