Unable to start ai tool - LM Studio as a daemon & I don't know how to register new service under init.d default list
04:13 12 Apr 2026

All whatever I tried regarding making LM Studio to run as a service in my Linux Machine

$ lms server start
Waking up LM Studio service...
node:events:496
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: spawn /tmp/.mount_LM-StuqZg275/lm-studio ENOENT
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:286:19)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:484:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
Emitted 'error' event on ChildProcess instance at:
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:292:12)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:484:16)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'spawn /tmp/.mount_LM-StuqZg275/lm-studio',
  path: '/tmp/.mount_LM-StuqZg275/lm-studio',
  spawnargs: [ '--run-as-service' ]
}

Node.js v20.12.2



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lms start --run-as-service
error: unknown command 'start'
(Did you mean status?)



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$ curl -fsSL https://lmstudio.ai/install.sh | bash
^[[CDownloading llmster 0.0.11-1 Linux x86_64
##################################################### 100.0%
Verifying checksum...
Installing llmster...
(node:12109) ExperimentalWarning: Single executable application is an experimental feature and might change at any time
(Use `llmster --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
Install completed at /home/anand/.lmstudio/llmster/0.0.11-1.
Installation finished successfully! llmster is ready to launch.
To start the daemon, run:

    lms daemon up

$ ps -ef|grep lms
anand      14475    4371  0 13:00 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto lms

ps -ef|grep llm
anand      14481    4371  0 13:00 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto llm


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