Re: error: Unable to start server (community 3.18.0)

root@baker1 [cfengine3.service.wants]# cat cf-execd.service 
[Unit]
Description=CFEngine Enterprise Execution Scheduler
After=syslog.target
ConditionPathExists=@bindir@/cf-execd
ConditionPathExists=@workdir@/inputs/promises.cf
PartOf=cfengine3.service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=@bindir@/cf-execd --no-fork
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
KillMode=process

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
WantedBy=cfengine3.service

On Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 9:18:45 AM UTC-5 [email protected] 
wrote:

> I checked an install of community on centos-7 and it would seem that the 
> package is not corrupt but that somehow your cf-execd.service file did 
> become corrupt.
>
> ```
> cf-remote spawn --platform centos-7-x64 --count 1 --role client --name 
> cent7
> cf-remote --version 3.18.0 install --edition community --clients cent7
> ```
>
> I bootstrap and seem to have no issues.
>
> ```
> # grep cf-server /var/log/messages
> ...
> Jul  8 14:15:58 ip-172-31-18-118 cf-serverd: notice: Server is starting...
> Jul  8 14:15:58 ip-172-31-18-118 cf-serverd[11219]: CFEngine(server)  
> Server is starting...
> ```
>
> Can you include the text of your cf-execd.service file?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
> On Thursday, July 8, 2021 at 8:02:15 AM UTC-5 Beto wrote:
>
>> ut-oh, may have popped the cork a bit too quick.  Now cf-execd fails to 
>> start.  Looking at cf-execd.service, it contains the text of a symlink:
>>
>> root@baker1 [cfengine3.service.wants]# cd /usr/lib/systemd/system/
>> root@baker1 [system]# ll cf*
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  462 Jun 23 10:53 cf-apache.service
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  864 Jun 23 10:53 cfengine3.service
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  101 Jul  7 09:28 cf-execd.service
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  443 Jun 23 10:53 cf-hub.service
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  358 Jun 23 10:53 cf-monitord.service
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1150 Jun 23 10:53 cf-postgres.service
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  664 Jun 23 10:53 cf-runalerts.service
>> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root  437 Jun 23 10:53 cf-serverd.service
>> root@baker1 [system]# cat cf-execd.service 
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 40 Dec  8  2017 cf-execd.service -> 
>> /usr/lib/systemd/system/cf-execd.service
>>
>> So I replaced this with cf-execd.service from github but still not 
>> working.  This is from the journal:
>>
>> systemd: Cannot add dependency job for unit cf-execd.service, ignoring: 
>> Unit is not loaded properly: Invalid argument.
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 1:40:37 PM UTC-5 Beto wrote:
>>
>>> Yes sir, ipv6 is disabled..
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 1:19:45 PM UTC-5 [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Perfect. Thank you. The issue is with the bind interface of "::" aka 
>>>> ipv6 wildcard address, if this fails then we don't fall back to ipv4.
>>>>
>>>> Do you by chance have ipv6 disabled? I would suspect the answer is yes 
>>>> but would like to know for sure.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Craig
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 1:05:56 PM UTC-5 Beto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Oh btw this is RHEL7.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 1:00:32 PM UTC-5 Beto wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> That did it.  Thanks, Craig!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 12:45:10 PM UTC-5 
>>>>>> [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can you include some basic information like OS name/version? Thanks!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes. This is likely a known issue we are working through right now. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please remove or comment out this section of policy and try again.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://github.com/cfengine/masterfiles/blob/3.18.x/controls/cf_serverd.cf#L73-L77
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If it still fails, please start cf-serverd with strace
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ```
>>>>>>> strace /var/cfengine/bin/cf-serverd -F
>>>>>>> ```
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hopefully the policy fix resolves the issue for you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Craig
>>>>>>> On Wednesday, July 7, 2021 at 12:36:05 PM UTC-5 Beto wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I installed community 3.18.0 and masterfiles 3.18.0.  cf-serverd 
>>>>>>>> fails with the  message in the subject and exits with rc 1, which I can't 
>>>>>>>> find documented.  No other errors appear in verbose output.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Anyone got a clue?  TIA
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>

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