[SOLVED] httpd does not start after update 2.4

Crocodil · 2014-03-20 13:02:58

Hi,

Yesterday, I've updated apache from 2.2.x to 2.4.9-1 (testing). I've made sure that the configuration is OK for the new version. Unfortunatelly the httpd service does not start:

# systemctl start httpd
Job for httpd.service failed. See 'systemctl status httpd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

'journalctl -xn' gives this:

mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: Failed to load environment files: No such file or directory
mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: ^[[1;39mhttpd.service failed to run 'start' task: No such file or directory
mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: Failed to start Apache Webserver.
-- Subject: Unit httpd.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: [url]http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[/url]
--
-- Unit httpd.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: ^[[1;39mUnit httpd.service entered failed state.
mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: httpd.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: Stopping Apache Webserver...
-- Subject: Unit httpd.service has begun shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: [url]http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[/url]
--
-- Unit httpd.service has begun shutting down.
mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: Starting Apache Webserver...
-- Subject: Unit httpd.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: [url]http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[/url]
--
-- Unit httpd.service has begun starting up.
mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: ^[[1;39mhttpd.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: Failed to start Apache Webserver.
-- Subject: Unit httpd.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: [url]http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel[/url]
--
-- Unit httpd.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
mar 20 13:53:06 maciekz-desktop systemd[1]: ^[[1;39mUnit httpd.service entered failed state.

This doesn't tell me anything... I know that this is not an Apache configuration problem, because 'apachectl -k start' runs fine.

The strange thing is that if I go to /usr/lib/systemd/system, copy httpd.service to apache.service and then run 'systemctl start apache', it works fine (no errors, server starts).

I would be grateful for any help...

Best regards,
Crocodil

EDIT: The problem was caused by a customized /etc/systemd/system/httpd.service file. Removing it has solved the problem.

Last edited by Crocodil (2014-03-20 14:12:48)

karol · 2014-03-20 13:11:46

When posting configs, code or command output, please use [ code ] tags, not [ quote ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode

like this

It makes the code more readable and - in case of longer listings - more convenient to scroll through.

Edit: Please search the forum.
I know nothing about apache and httpd, but maybe https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=178124 has some tips.

Last edited by karol (2014-03-20 13:14:48)

Crocodil · 2014-03-20 13:29:47

karol wrote:

When posting configs, code or command output, please use [ code ] tags, not [ quote ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode
like this
It makes the code more readable and - in case of longer listings - more convenient to scroll through.

Edit: Please search the forum.
I know nothing about apache and httpd, but maybe https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=178124 has some tips.

Thank you for the suggestion - I've changed the tags to [ code ] (wasn't sure before which one to use). I've already searched quite a lot, but I wasn't able to find a solution or a similar problem. All the threads I could find were related to httpd.conf problems but it looks like my configuration is fine.

# apachectl -t
Syntax OK

Also, as I've said, the copied apache.service starts fine. I will check the suggested topic though

EDIT: I've also tried removing /etc/httpd and reinstalling the apache package - even though httpd.conf was the default one, it also failed to start using httpd.service.

Last edited by Crocodil (2014-03-20 13:34:30)

WorMzy · 2014-03-20 13:57:24

Do you have a custom httpd.service file in /etc/systemd/system, or some modifications in /etc/systemd/system/httpd.service.d/ ?

Crocodil · 2014-03-20 14:11:33

WorMzy wrote:

Do you have a custom httpd.service file in /etc/systemd/system, or some modifications in /etc/systemd/system/httpd.service.d/ ?

Thank you very much! There was in fact a /etc/systemd/system/httpd.conf file that was causing the problem. I do not remember ever customising httpd.service but my memory might be failing, as it was created in 2012

After removing that file, httpd.service now starts fine

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#1 2014-03-20 13:02:58

[SOLVED] httpd does not start after update 2.4

#2 2014-03-20 13:11:46

Re: [SOLVED] httpd does not start after update 2.4

#3 2014-03-20 13:29:47

Re: [SOLVED] httpd does not start after update 2.4

#4 2014-03-20 13:57:24

Re: [SOLVED] httpd does not start after update 2.4

#5 2014-03-20 14:11:33

Re: [SOLVED] httpd does not start after update 2.4

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