Bug#1127707: systemd service cannot start ("Unit var-run.mount could not be found") and has invalid syntax

[John Scott]

Package: mumudvb
Version: 2.1.0-2
Severity: important

I've run into this problem on Trixie and I think it deserves a fix in trixie-updates.

I've made a configuration file /etc/mumudvb/mumudvb.conf to my liking and tried to do 'systemctl start mumudvb', but I get
> Failed to start mumudvb.service: Unit var-run.mount not found.

This looks like a relic of very old versions of systemd; some other applications have been afflicted by like issues and it's mostly been attributable to "cargo cult copy-and-paste" in recent years:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1196795#c2

Furthermore, systemd separately warns me about this line in the service file:
> type=forking

The 't' is not uppercase, so systemd ignores this line. This line is important, though, because Type=forking is not the default.

I can't grasp the upstream VCS history, but I think the current service file is supposed to be, approximately, this: https://github.com/braice/MuMuDVB/blob/mumudvb2/scripts/debian/lib/systemd/system/mumudvb.service which isn't afflicted by any of the foregoing issues.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.63+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mumudvb depends on:
ii  adduser              3.152
ii  dvb-apps             1.1.1+rev1500-2
ii  init-system-helpers  1.69~deb13u1
ii  libc6                2.41-12+deb13u1

mumudvb recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mumudvb suggests:
pn  dvbtune  <none>

-- no debconf information
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