#5490·lima

Rocky10: systemd-resolved.service: Unit systemd-resolved.service not found

Author: reegnzCreated Sep 8, 2026Updated Sep 9, 2026

Labelsbugguest/el10

Description

When launching the rocky-10 template cloud-init fails with this error:

status: error
extended_status: error - done
boot_status_code: enabled-by-generator
last_update: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:01:21 +0000
detail: DataSourceNoCloud [seed=/dev/vdb]
errors:
	- ('scripts_per_boot', RuntimeError('Runparts: 1 failures (00-lima.boot.sh) in 1 attempted commands'))
recoverable_errors:
DEPRECATED:
	- Deprecated cloud-config provided: users.0.ssh-authorized-keys:  Deprecated in version 18.3. Use **ssh_authorized_keys** instead., users.0.uid:  Changed in version 22.3. The use of ``string`` type is deprecated. Use an ``integer`` instead.
WARNING:
	- Failed to run module scripts_per_boot (per-boot in /var/lib/cloud/scripts/per-boot)
	- Running module scripts_per_boot (<module 'cloudinit.config.cc_scripts_per_boot' from '/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_scripts_per_boot.py'>) failed

Digging deeper in the cloud init logs I've found this:

+ systemctl restart systemd-resolved.service
Failed to restart systemd-resolved.service: Unit systemd-resolved.service not found.

I've done a root-cause analysis on this and found the following: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/1973a8c6801e172ee89bc3d998cd1c5ea60a9235/pkg/cidata/cidata.TEMPLATE.d/boot.Linux/06-enable-mdns-on-systemd.sh#L13-L15

This code assumes resolvectl is installed with systemd-resolved package, but on rocky it is installed with the systemd package.

An additional check like systemctl cat systemd-resolved.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0 would make the script work properly.

Command to reproduce:

limactl start template:rocky-10

Source: lima-vm/lima

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