Logrotate service failed to start

[Grimnir]

Hi friends, I recently installed Kubuntu 24.04 and I am loving it. Everything works great and I am dilligenty updating whenever the software updater says there is updates. But a few days ago I noticed the following message when booting and shuting down which wasn’t there earlier:

«Logrotate service failed to start»

This message stays on the screen for a few seconds when booting up and shuting down.

What does this mean? It doesn’t affect the use of the computer AFAIK, but is it something that should be fixed… and how do I fix it?

I am not running dual boot, Kubuntu is only OS on PC.

Thank you.

[Grimnir]

Ok I am sorry to say that this is not solved after all. I still get the message "Logrotate service failed to start" when booting and shutting down.

But I did some research and found out that if I change ProtectSystem from "full" to "none" in logrotate.service, then the error message disappears.

Here is the current content of my logrotate.service file.

[Unit]
Description=Rotate log files
Documentation=man:logrotate(8) man:logrotate.conf(5)
RequiresMountsFor=/var/log
ConditionACPower=true

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

# performance options
Nice=19
IOSchedulingClass=best-effort
IOSchedulingPriority=7

# hardening options
#  details: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exec.html
#  no ProtectHome for userdir logs
#  no PrivateNetwork for mail deliviery
#  no NoNewPrivileges for third party rotate scripts
#  no RestrictSUIDSGID for creating setgid directories
LockPersonality=true
MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
PrivateDevices=true
PrivateTmp=true
ProtectClock=true
ProtectControlGroups=true
ProtectHostname=true
ProtectKernelLogs=true
ProtectKernelModules=true
ProtectKernelTunables=true
[B]ProtectSystem=none[/B]
RestrictNamespaces=true
RestrictRealtime=true

But setting ProtectySystem=none doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Is there some other solution? Are some folders lacking the correct permissions?

Any help is appreciated.