Re: masked service file

From	Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: masked service file
Date	2021-08-31 20:50 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 07:31:22PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> On 2021-08-31 18:49, john doe wrote:
> > You can simply 'unmask' it and see how it goes.
> 
> Is there a way to find out why it is masked ?

Starting from a point of zero context?  Probably not.

You MIGHT be able to scroll back through your terminal history and
see what happened when you installed whatever package contains this
mystery service.  Maybe there will be informative output.

If there's no terminal still containing the session where you installed
the package, you can check /var/log/apt/term.log* and maybe one of those
will have a copy of the session and its output.  Again, maybe there will
be informative output in the session's output.  Maybe there won't.

Maybe there will be documentation under /usr/share/doc/PKGNAME that
tells you why the service is masked, and that you need to perform steps
X, Y, Z to be able to use the service.  Maybe there won't.  Hard to tell
without knowing the name of the package and the name of the service.

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masked service file mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 19:40 +0200
  Re: masked service file john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-08-31 19:50 +0200
    Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 20:50 +0200
      Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-31 21:00 +0200
        Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 21:30 +0200
          Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-01 00:20 +0200
            Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-01 16:20 +0200
              Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-01 17:30 +0200
                Re: masked service file Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-09-01 20:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-01 20:10 +0200
                Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-01 21:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-01 21:20 +0200
                Re: masked service file "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-05 16:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-05 17:10 +0200
                Re: masked service file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-09-08 18:10 +0200
                Re: masked service file <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-09-08 18:10 +0200
                Re: masked service file Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-09-02 12:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-02 17:30 +0200
                Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-02 19:00 +0200
                Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-03 00:30 +0200
                Re: masked service file Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-09-03 01:30 +0200

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