rc.local not running on startup

I have created a script to enable my Bluetooth driver. I then used rc.local to run it from startup. But, this is not working.

When running the command systemctl status rc-local.service I get:

Failed to issue method call: no such interface 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties' on object at path /org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/rc_2dlocal_2eservice 

What I should get is something that looks like this:

rc-local.service - /etc/rc.local Compatibility Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service; static; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d └─debian.conf Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-04-02 10:39:44 -03; 1s ago Process: 2044 ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 2049 (svscanboot) Tasks: 3 Memory: 556.0K CPU: 10ms CGroup: / 

All of my files are executable (chmod 755 [filename]), and I verified that the rc.local should run with sudo /etc/init.d/rc.local start and sudo /etc/rc.local start.

Is there anything I am missing?

Current rc.local file:

#!/bin/sh -e # # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. # Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other # value on error. # # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution # bits. # # By default this script does nothing. /home/[redacted]/Desktop/rtl8723bs_bt/start_bt.sh exit 0 

Contents from the start_bt.sh

#!/bin/bash # # Shell script to install Bluetooth firmware and attach BT part of # RTL8723BS # if [ "$1" = "" ] then # Find the TTY attached to the BT device TTYSTRING=`dmesg -t | grep tty | grep MMIO | cut -b 14-18` TTY=`expr substr "$TTYSTRING" 1 5` if [ "$TTYSTRING" = "" ] then echo echo "No BT TTY device has been found" echo "Either this computer has no BT device that uses hciattach, or" echo "Your kernel does not have module 8250_dw configured." echo "Note: The configuration variable is CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DW." echo exit 1 fi else # Use the TTY device mentioned oi the call TTY=$1 fi TTY="/dev/$TTY" echo "Using device $TTY for Bluetooth" if [ ! -f /lib/firmware/rtl_bt/rtlbt_config ]; then mkdir -p /lib/firmware/rtl_bt/ cp rtlbt_* /lib/firmware/rtl_bt/. fi ./rtk_hciattach -n -s 115200 $TTY rtk_h5 > hciattach.txt 2>&1 & 

2 Answers

According to This forum post the problem could be with failed distro-upgrades. After converting my physical disk to a VM and updating it there it worked with a test script: test.sh

echo run > run.txt 

I then put back in my original script and it still didn't work. Taking the advice of Wazoox:

Yes obviously the "start_bt" script copy files around and run commands from a defined place which isn't / (from which /etc/rc.local is run). You should probably add a line like this : cd /home/[redacted]/Desktop/rtl8723bs_bt/ right after the line echo "Using device $TTY for Bluetooth"

By adding cd /home/[redacted]/Desktop/rtl8723bs_bt/ to the script fixed the problem of it not running. To fix this problem on the physical computer I will need to reinstall Ubuntu, which wasn't a problem for me.

I rewrite my comment as an answer:

The "start_bt" script copy files around and run commands from a defined place which isn't / (from which /etc/rc.local is ran). You should add a line like this :

cd /home/[redacted]/Desktop/rtl8723bs_bt/ 

right after the line

echo "Using device $TTY for Bluetooth" 

So that all the commands are ran in the right folder.