November 9, 2025Nov 9 Installation of autheila package ("apt install authelia") does does end with error due to /var/log/journal beeing a symlink to /var/log.hdd/journal. Once the symlink is removed and the directory is created instead, the installation can be completed successfully. The symlink can be recreated afterwards and authelia wil steill run normally - until the next package update.
November 24, 2025Nov 24 authelia is not a Debian or Ubuntu package. I'd recommend you complain to whoever you got the package from, I guess. It's the first time the symlink has become an issue as far as I can recall.
November 24, 2025Nov 24 Author In this case it is not a Debian issue but one of Armbian. Debian has no /var/log.hdd directory, hence /var/log/journal is a directory not a symlink. ==> no issues with installing authelia in Debian. For armbian additional handling is required to handle this issue. I doubt Debian will do anything about it. Edited November 24, 2025Nov 24 by trupf
November 24, 2025Nov 24 I never said it was a Debian issue (you failed to mention which userspace you were running in your original post, btw). The issue is with whereever you got your authelia package from (which you also failed to mention). You also failed to mention what error exactly you are running into. But yes, you are right, Debian will and can do nothing about it. Basically the same is true for Armbian, the symlink is there for a reason and there to stay. You are in the wrong place to get this fixed.
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