Error when starting with systemd - failed to start service

[douira]

When I run systemctl start factorio I get this error:

/opt/factorio-init$ systemctl start factorio
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.systemd1.manage-units ===
Authentication is required to start 'factorio.service'.
Authenticating as: douira,,, (douira)
Password: 
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
Job for factorio.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status factorio.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

I'm running Ubuntu 18 so I followed the steps for systemd. I created a factorio user with adduser factorio beforehand.

[wli]

I just ran into this, and had to debug this following the debug instructions. This is because --server-adminlist is no longer a valid option (not sure as of which factorio version).

$ /opt/factorio-init/factorio invocation
/opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --config /opt/factorio/config/config.ini --port 34197 --start-server-load-latest --server-settings /opt/factorio/data/server-settings.json --server-adminlist /opt/factorio/data/server-adminlist.json
$ /opt/factorio/bin/x64/factorio --config /opt/factorio/config/config.ini --port 34197 --start-server-load-latest --server-settings /opt/factorio/data/server-settings.json --server-adminlist /opt/factorio/data/server-adminlist.json
Option ‘server-adminlist’ does not exist

Usage:
  factorio [OPTION...]

Workaround: remove the --server-adminlist ${ADMINLIST} arg in https://github.com/Bisa/factorio-init/blob/8a78316fc6c04c533a931f260a244054f42a963c/factorio#L126 locally, and try again.

[tmzasz]

so your problem is the command exists but you need to point it to an actual file if the file does not exist it throws the error they could be a little bit clearer with the error message but --server-adminlist FILE is a legit command line arg https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/251934092306677760/627391604399013898/unknown.png

[cybersteel8]

That workaround to remove the command from the invocation wouldn't be required if you put in your factorio-init/config file an entry named ADMINLIST. An example that I used: ADMINLIST=${FACTORIO_PATH}/server-adminlist.json