[LAU] setting fluidsynth as a service in debian/systemd

[Federico Bruni]

Hi

you are my last resource.
I'm trying to start fluidsynth in daemon mode (-s) at the startup. At 
first I tried to adapt a guide for Arch but I realized that in Debian 
(sid) the configuration is different:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760210

I'm using systemd. I've tried several times to write a proper 
fluidsynth.service but I always failed.
Here's my last try:

--------------->----------------------------->---------------------------->

[Unit]
Description=FluidSynth Synthesizer
After=syslog.target
Before=sound.target
Requires=dbus.socket

[Service]
Type = forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fluidsynth -s -a alsa 
/usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
#Restart=always
#RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
#WantedBy=multi-user.target

----------------->-------------------------->----------------------------->

This is the error:

# systemctl status -l fluidsynth.service
● fluidsynth.service - FluidSynth Synthesizer
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/fluidsynth.service; disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

ott 02 19:56:00 fede-xps systemd[1]: Started FluidSynth Synthesizer.
ott 02 20:13:51 fede-xps systemd[1]: Stopped FluidSynth Synthesizer.
ott 02 22:09:05 fede-xps fluidsynth[24181]: fluidsynth: warning: 
Requested a period size of 64, got 940 instead
ott 02 22:09:05 fede-xps fluidsynth[24181]: fluidsynth: warning: 
Requested 16 periods, got 8 instead
ott 02 22:09:05 fede-xps fluidsynth[24181]: FluidSynth version 1.1.6
ott 02 22:09:05 fede-xps fluidsynth[24181]: Copyright (C) 2000-2012 
Peter Hanappe and others.
ott 02 22:09:05 fede-xps fluidsynth[24181]: Distributed under the LGPL 
license.
ott 02 22:09:05 fede-xps fluidsynth[24181]: SoundFont(R) is a 
registered trademark of E-mu Systems, Inc.
ott 02 22:09:05 fede-xps fluidsynth[24181]: Type 'help' for help topics.
ott 02 22:09:05 fede-xps fluidsynth[24181]: >

The  error about the period size can be avoided setting "-z 940", but I 
don't understand why this error appears only when fluidsynth is started 
as a systemd service and not when I run that command in a terminal. I 
guess that it may be related to when the command is launched in systemd 
levels. I think that I should play with the values of After, Before and 
Requires in the Unit section.
But I hope that someone in this list can help me, I don't have time 
currently to study systemd (and it would be probably too complex for 
me).

Thank you in advance.
Federico


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