Tip: Ubuntu, systemd and leapd

Ubuntourist 2014-11-22 17:01:37 UTC #1

[I wasn't sure where to put this. Feel free to move this to the appropriate topic and remove this line.]

If you have troubles with switching to systemd under Ubuntu, create a file /lib/systemd/system/leapd.service (644 root:root) with the contents:

# Found by Kevin Cole 2014.11.22 at
# https://github.com/atejeda/leap-fedora-rpm
#
# Remember to:
#
#   ln -s /lib/systemd/system/leapd.service /etc/systemd/system/leapd.service
#   systemctl daemon-reload
#

[Unit]
Description=LeapMotion Daemon
After=syslog.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/leapd

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note the change in filename from leap.service to leapd.service

(Of course, your mileage may vary, but this worked for me.)

Leap Motion SDK fails to install properly on Ubuntu 15.04

Linux install of SDK fails

Joe_Ward 2015-06-15 17:09:30 UTC #2

Hey, thanks for posting this!

clel 2016-02-20 16:33:10 UTC #3

How about releasing an official installer without this issue?

ragavendradani 2016-06-29 08:15:18 UTC #4

I had trouble getting Leapmotion work on Ubuntu 16.04. This solved it. Thank you.

juantelo95 2017-10-25 13:49:07 UTC #5

what extension did you use for the file?

aplatypus 2018-02-15 11:16:17 UTC #6

Amen to that! This message is now 3 1/2 years old ... The issue is STILL present in

Leap-2.3.1+31549-x64.deb

In addition the install fails to manufacture a config.json file. I managed to make a virtually empty one that appears to let me get started.

Also ... is it possible for the Leap controller service to auto-start?

user-300226607 2022-06-21 23:23:06 UTC #7

Aaaand 4 years later, STILL no fix for this, so here I am, trying to get a working leapd on Ubuntu 20.04. :-/

Does anyone know the proper configuration to stop the service cleanly? It was hanging my machine's shutdown because there's a default 90-second timeout before sending a KILL signal to the process. Adding TimeoutStopSec=5 to leapd.service shortened this timeout to something non-terrible, but there must be a better way. Does leapd simply not obey SIGTERM?