Tip for anyone running text gen as a systemd service with superboogav2

[AlanMW]

I was trying to have text-generation-webui run as a service with the superboogav2 extension and I noticed it had an issue starting the extension with the following error,

File "/home/xxx/Text_Gen/text-generation-webui-main/installer_files/env/lib/python3.11/site-packages/chromadb/db/duckdb.py", line 53, in __init__
self._conn.execute("INSTALL 'json';")
duckdb.duckdb.IOException: IO Error: Can't find the home directory at ''
Specify a home directory using the SET home_directory='/path/to/dir' option.

And I realized it was because systemd services dont have a user defined home folder. So in your .service file add an Environment variable which defines $Home, like so:

[Unit]
Description=TextGen_Oobabooga
After=network.target

[Service]
Environment="HOME='/home/xxx'"
ExecStart=/home/xxx/Text_Gen/text-generation-webui-main/start_linux.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Hope this helps someone.

[jkrauss82]

Thanks for sharing, it has helped me.