# Error disabling systemd **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [May 26, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/error-disabling-systemd/3685 "2021-05-26T20:54:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![sjuengst](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/sjuengst/32/633_2.png) [@sjuengst](https://hub.mender.io/u/sjuengst)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/error-disabling-systemd/3685/5 "2021-05-27T20:36:12Z")
First, I think the documentation has a bug: `meta-mender/meta-mender-core/recipes-mender` doesn’t contain a `mender` directory (nor `mender_%.bb`), so shouldn’t my layer contain `recipes-mender/mender-client/mender-client_%.bbappend` instead? With this change, I did a `bitbake -e mender-client` and see this: ```auto # $SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE [4 operations] # set /yocto-src/sources/poky/meta/conf/documentation.conf:403 # [doc] "For recipes that inherit the systemd class, this variable specifies whether the service you have specified in SYSTEMD_SERVICE should be started automatically or not." # set? /yocto-src/sources/meta-mender/meta-mender-core/recipes-mender/mender-client/mender-client.inc:17 # "enable" # set /yocto-src/sources/poky/meta/classes/systemd.bbclass:9 # [_defaultval] "enable" # set /yocto-dev/layers/meta-orro/recipes-mender/mender-client/mender-client_%.bbappend:1 # "disable" # pre-expansion value: # "disable" SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE="disable" # ``` but at runtime, you can see that it’s the right build (built a few minutes ago) but mender still daemonized: ```auto root@hermes:~# uname -a Linux hermes 5.4.24-2.1.0+gbabac008e5cf #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 27 15:34:35 UTC 2021 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@hermes:~# ps |grep mender 412 root 873m S /usr/bin/mender daemon 413 root 852m S /usr/bin/mender-connect daemon 2667 root 2248 S grep mender ``` --- _[View the full topic](https://hub.mender.io/t/error-disabling-systemd/3685)._