How are you connecting the devices to the pi?
Have you run raspi-config and enabled/disabled the appropriate sections?

You have to use sudo with systemctl.

Colin

On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 11:29, Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install on Raspbian Buster and failing!
>
> I did the usual updates, then installed owserver owhttpd ow-shell,  it
> has installed 3.2p3
>
> owdir worked, but that was with the fake devices in owfs.conf. Edited
> that out and added dtparam=i2c1=on
>
> sudo i2cdetect -y 1
>
> gives me
>
> Error: Could not open file `/dev/i2c-1' or `/dev/i2c/1': No such file or
> directory
>
> Searching suggested adding dtparam=i2c1=on  to /boot/config.txt
>
> I did that and rebooted
>
> I still get   Error: Could not open file `/dev/i2c-1' or `/dev/i2c/1':
> No such file or directory
>
> Thought I might need to restart the service but
>
> pi@raspberrypi:~ $ systemctl restart owserver.service
> ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===
> Authentication is required to restart 'owserver.service'.
> Authenticating as: root
> Password:
> polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure
> ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ===
> Failed to restart owserver.service: Access denied
> See system logs and 'systemctl status owserver.service' for details.
> pi@raspberrypi:~ $
>
> I think this is the section of the syslog file, but doesn't mean much to me
>
> Aug  4 11:14:06 raspberrypi OWFS[493]: DEFAULT: ow_arg.c:(127) Cannot
> access device /dev/i2c-1
> Aug  4 11:14:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: owserver.service: Failed with
> result 'protocol'.
> Aug  4 11:14:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Backend server
> for 1-wire control.
> Aug  4 11:14:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: owserver.service: Service
> RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
> Aug  4 11:14:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: owserver.service: Scheduled
> restart job, restart counter is at 5.
> Aug  4 11:14:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped Backend server for
> 1-wire control.
> Aug  4 11:14:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: owserver.service: Start request
> repeated too quickly.
> Aug  4 11:14:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: owserver.service: Failed with
> result 'protocol'.
> Aug  4 11:14:06 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Failed to start Backend server
> for 1-wire control.
> Aug  4 11:15:15 raspberrypi dbus-daemon[276]: [system] Activating via
> systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkit.service'
> requested by ':1.9' (uid=1000 pid=501 comm="/usr/bin/pkttyagent
> --notify-fd 5 --fallback ")
> Aug  4 11:15:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
> Aug  4 11:15:15 raspberrypi polkitd[504]: started daemon version 0.105
> using authority implementation `local' version `0.105'
> Aug  4 11:15:15 raspberrypi dbus-daemon[276]: [system] Successfully
> activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1'
> Aug  4 11:15:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager.
> Aug  4 11:17:01 raspberrypi CRON[517]: (root) CMD (   cd / && run-parts
> --report /etc/cron.hourly)
> Aug  4 11:19:37 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Cleanup of Temporary
> Directories...
> Aug  4 11:19:37 raspberrypi systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service:
> Succeeded.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
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