I've a machine with Ubuntu Server 16.04.4 LTS, the purpose of this machine is run a Geth process reachable by a web services.
This is my "unit service":
[Unit]
Description=Ethereum go client
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/geth --testnet --fast --bootnodes "enode://20c9ad97c081d63397d7b685a412227a40e23c8bdc6688c6f37e97cfbc22d2b4d1db1510d8f61e6a8866ad7f0e17c02b14182d37ea7c3c8b9c2683aeb6b733a1@52.169.14.227:30303,enode://6ce05930c72abc632c58e2e4324f7c7ea478cec0ed4fa2528982cf34483094e9cbc9216e7aa349691242576d552a2a56aaeae426c5303ded677ce455ba1acd9d@13.84.180.240:30303" --rpc --rpcapi="db,eth,net,web3,personal,web3" --rpcaddr "0.0.0.0" --rpcport "8545" --rpccorsdomain "*"
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
I created this file (geth.ropsten.service) inside /etc/systemd/system and I executed this commands:
sudo systemctl enable geth.ropsten.service
sudo systemctl start geth.ropsten.service
If I reboot my machine I can view running process but it's not downloading the blockchain.
If I execute this command:
sudo systemctl status geth.ropsten.service
I can see this log but executions seems blocked:
● geth.ropsten.service - Ethereum go client
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/geth.ropsten.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2018-03-13 09:45:56 UTC; 44min ago
Main PID: 2128 (geth)
Tasks: 9
Memory: 52.7M
CPU: 1min 18.495s
CGroup: /system.slice/geth.ropsten.service
└─2128 /usr/bin/geth --testnet --fast --bootnodes enode://20c9ad97c081d63397d7b685a412227a40e23c8bdc6688c6f37e97cfbc22d2b4d1db1510d8f61e6a8866ad7f0e17c02
Mar 13 09:45:57 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:57] Loaded most recent local header number=0 hash=419410…ca4a2d td=1048576
Mar 13 09:45:57 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:57] Loaded most recent local full block number=0 hash=419410…ca4a2d td=1048576
Mar 13 09:45:57 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:57] Loaded most recent local fast block number=0 hash=419410…ca4a2d td=1048576
Mar 13 09:45:57 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:57] Loaded local transaction journal transactions=0 dropped=0
Mar 13 09:45:57 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:57] Regenerated local transaction journal transactions=0 accounts=0
Mar 13 09:45:57 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:57] Starting P2P networking
Mar 13 09:45:59 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:59] UDP listener up self=enode://073464f568d4166becc005bd1cdf8ebdfb6e74c6ca83
Mar 13 09:45:59 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:59] RLPx listener up self=enode://073464f568d4166becc005bd1cdf8ebdfb6e74c6ca83
Mar 13 09:45:59 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:59] HTTP endpoint opened url=http://0.0.0.0:8545 cors=* vhosts=localhost
Mar 13 09:45:59 xdev-avgbc-node geth[2128]: INFO [03-13|09:45:59] IPC endpoint opened url=/root/.ethereum/testnet/geth.ipc
If I execute following command inside terminal I can see downloading the blockchain:
/usr/bin/geth --testnet --fast --bootnodes "enode://20c9ad97c081d63397d7b685a412227a40e23c8bdc6688c6f37e97cfbc22d2b4d1db1510d8f61e6a8866ad7f0e17c02b14182d37ea7c3c8b9c2683aeb6b733a1@52.169.14.227:30303,enode://6ce05930c72abc632c58e2e4324f7c7ea478cec0ed4fa2528982cf34483094e9cbc9216e7aa349691242576d552a2a56aaeae426c5303ded677ce455ba1acd9d@13.84.180.240:30303" --rpc --rpcapi="db,eth,net,web3,personal,web3" --rpcaddr "0.0.0.0" --rpcport "8545" --rpccorsdomain "*"
Why my process not download the blockchain?
EDIT
I changed daemon file adding two lines of code but without success:
[Unit]
Description=Ethereum go client
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
...
If I configure the daemon as user-service (adding the geth.ropsten.service on /etc/systemd/user) and I run this command:
sudo systemctl --user start geth.ropsten.service
Geth process start download the blockchain. Why?
Thanks
