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[Unit]
Description=Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon
After=network.target
[Service]
User=chris
Group=chris
Type=forking
PIDFile=/home/chris/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid
ExecStart=/home/chris/.bitcoin/bitcoind -daemon -pid=/home/chris/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid \
-conf=/home/chris/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/home/chris/.bitcoin/ -disablewallet
Restart=always
PrivateTmp=true
TimeoutStopSec=60s
TimeoutStartSec=2s
StartLimitInterval=120s
StartLimitBurst=5
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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AlienResidents commented Feb 27, 2018 •
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It's most likely your "ExecStart" line. Fix that like to point to the correct bitcoind executable, and it should work for you. I tested this with a "test" user as you can see below.

test@localhost:~$ ps -ef |grep -E '^test.*bitcoind'
test      8342  7594  0 13:56 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -E ^test.*bitcoind
test@localhost:~$ bitcoind -daemon -pid=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid -conf=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/home/test/.bitcoin/ -disablewallet
Bitcoin server starting
test@localhost:~$ ps -ef |grep -E '^test.*bitcoind'
test      8345     1  7 13:56 ?        00:00:00 bitcoind -daemon -pid=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid -conf=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/home/test/.bitcoin/ -disablewallet
test      8356  7594  0 13:56 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -E ^test.*bitcoind
test@localhost:~$ kill -9 8345
test@localhost:~$ ps -ef |grep -E '^test.*bitcoind'
test      8364  7594  0 13:57 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -E ^test.*bitcoind
test@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl list-unit-files | grep bitcoind
bitcoind.service                           disabled
test@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl start bitcoind
Job for bitcoind.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status bitcoind.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
test@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl status bitcoind.service
● bitcoind.service - Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bitcoind.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: Stopped Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon.
Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: Starting Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon...
Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: bitcoind.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: Failed to start Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon.
Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: bitcoind.service: Unit entered failed state.
Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: bitcoind.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: bitcoind.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: Stopped Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon.
Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: bitcoind.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Feb 27 14:03:33 alaska systemd[1]: Failed to start Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon.
test@localhost:~$ cat /lib/systemd/system/bitcoind.service 
[Unit]
Description=Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
User=test
Group=test

Type=forking
PIDFile=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid
ExecStart=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind -daemon -pid=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid \
-conf=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/home/test/.bitcoin/ -disablewallet

Restart=always
PrivateTmp=true
TimeoutStopSec=60s
TimeoutStartSec=2s
StartLimitInterval=120s
StartLimitBurst=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
test@localhost:~$ sudo vim /lib/systemd/system/bitcoind.service
test@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
test@localhost:~$ which bitcoind
/usr/bin/bitcoind
test@localhost:~$ cat /lib/systemd/system/bitcoind.service 
[Unit]
Description=Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
User=test
Group=test

Type=forking
PIDFile=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bitcoind -daemon -pid=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid \
-conf=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/home/test/.bitcoin/ -disablewallet

Restart=always
PrivateTmp=true
TimeoutStopSec=60s
TimeoutStartSec=2s
StartLimitInterval=120s
StartLimitBurst=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
test@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl start bitcoind
test@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl status bitcoind
● bitcoind.service - Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bitcoind.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2018-02-27 13:58:36 AEDT; 2s ago
  Process: 8627 ExecStart=/usr/bin/bitcoind -daemon -pid=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid -conf=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/home/test/.bitcoin/ -disablewallet (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 8628 (bitcoin-shutoff)
   CGroup: /system.slice/bitcoind.service
           └─8628 /usr/bin/bitcoind -daemon -pid=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid -conf=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/home/test/.bitcoin/ -disablewallet

Feb 27 13:58:36 alaska systemd[1]: bitcoind.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Feb 27 13:58:36 alaska systemd[1]: Stopped Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon.
Feb 27 13:58:36 alaska systemd[1]: Starting Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon...
Feb 27 13:58:36 alaska systemd[1]: Started Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon.
test@localhost:~$ ps -ef |grep -E '^test.*bitcoind'
test      8628     1  0 13:58 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/bitcoind -daemon -pid=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid -conf=/home/test/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -datadir=/home/test/.bitcoin/ -disablewallet
test      8643  7594  0 13:58 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -E ^test.*bitcoind
test@localhost:~$ sudo systemctl stop bitcoind
test@localhost:~$ ps -ef |grep -E '^test.*bitcoind'
test      9012  7594  0 14:00 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -E ^test.*bitcoind
test@localhost:~$

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