How to remove systemctl service in Arch Linux?

spark_sara

I was new to installing Arch Linux and was following a shoddy tutorial, in the tutorial, the man explained that I should use: sudo systemctl enable dchpcd@wl01.service So that it automatically starts the WiFi service when I boot up, however, I spelled the device name incorrectly, it is actually wlo1 not wl01 . Now everytime I boot up, I have to wait 1m 30s for the attempted service start to time out. I tried to get rid of it in multiple ways...

Originally asked by Pavilion Sahota on Stack Exchange (superuser) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

The document in man systemctl explains that the enable commands makes symlinks and the disable commands removes them. It refers to the documentation for the [Install] section of unit files for more information. man systemd.unit has some docs related to the [Install] section which provides an example of where a symlink is stored. If the [Install] section contains WantedBy=multi-user-.target , then the symlink would be created in: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/foo.service So, check the [Install] section in the the related dhcpcd service file, and then check that the related symlink has been deleted. Finally, as described in man systemctl , there is an even stronger version of...

Full answer by markstos: https://superuser.stackexchange.com/a/1133298 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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