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Kolt Penny

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Registered: 2013-09-12

Posts: 107

Kerberos 5 service failed to start

Howdie,

Whenever I boot my computer, I get the following error:

[kolt@kolt ~]$ sudo systemctl status krb5-kdc.service
● krb5-kdc.service - Kerberos 5 KDC
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/krb5-kdc.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since mar 2014-09-02 23:13:28 CDT; 17min ago
  Process: 337 ExecStart=/usr/bin/krb5kdc -n (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 337 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

sep 02 23:13:24 kolt systemd[1]: krb5-kdc.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
sep 02 23:13:24 kolt systemd[1]: Unit krb5-kdc.service entered failed state.
sep 02 23:13:28 kolt systemd[1]: Failed to start Kerberos 5 KDC.
sep 02 23:13:28 kolt systemd[1]: Unit krb5-kdc.service entered failed state.
sep 02 23:13:28 kolt krb5kdc[239]: krb5kdc: cannot initialize realm ATHENA.MIT.EDU - see log file for details
sep 02 23:13:28 kolt krb5kdc[293]: krb5kdc: cannot initialize realm ATHENA.MIT.EDU - see log file for details
sep 02 23:13:28 kolt krb5kdc[318]: krb5kdc: cannot initialize realm ATHENA.MIT.EDU - see log file for details
sep 02 23:13:28 kolt krb5kdc[334]: krb5kdc: cannot initialize realm ATHENA.MIT.EDU - see log file for details
sep 02 23:13:28 kolt krb5kdc[337]: krb5kdc: cannot initialize realm ATHENA.MIT.EDU - see log file for details

I also had iptables and ip6tables services failing to start and fixed them really quick but I have no clue with this one. Is there a fix for this?, also, thanks in advance.

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Kerberos 5 service failed to start

What do the details in the log file tell you, if anything?

As an aside you don't need the sudo.

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Kolt Penny

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Registered: 2013-09-12

Posts: 107

Re: Kerberos 5 service failed to start

What do the details in the log file tell you, if anything?

Does this have a specific log file, if it does, how can I see it?

As an aside you don't need the sudo.

I know, I stopped a service before this and I just went up with the terminal and reused the command.

CarlD

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From: London

Registered: 2013-11-23

Posts: 128

Re: Kerberos 5 service failed to start

Do you actually need/use this service? If you have recently installed Arch, then it may be related to this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186244

Basically, a fault with systemd 216-1 resulted in services being automatically enabled, whether used/wanted or not. Kerberous is failing because it hasn't been configured. If you haven't configured it then you likely do not need it. This has been fixed for installations since last night with systemd 216-3.

This being the case, shut the services down. You can get a full list of failed services with:

systemctl --failed

You might want to check that the services that are running are what you want (e.g. readahead):

systemctl

fredbezies

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Registered: 2011-07-28

Posts: 353

Re: Kerberos 5 service failed to start

Just try to do a

sudo pacman -Syu

It will grab and install systemd 216-3 which fixes this bug on next reboot.

midixinga

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Registered: 2014-01-18

Posts: 193

Re: Kerberos 5 service failed to start

Just try to do a

sudo pacman -Syu

It will grab and install systemd 216-3 which fixes this bug on next reboot.

really ? this would be a new information.

CarlD

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From: London

Registered: 2013-11-23

Posts: 128

Re: Kerberos 5 service failed to start

Just try to do a

sudo pacman -Syu

It will grab and install systemd 216-3 which fixes this bug on next reboot.

I don't believe that this is the case. Already-enabled services will still have to be shut down manually, as far as I am aware. 216-3 just applies new installations (as was the case with the issues caused by 216-1).

Kolt Penny

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Registered: 2013-09-12

Posts: 107

Re: Kerberos 5 service failed to start

Do you actually need/use this service? If you have recently installed Arch, then it may be related to this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186244

This.

I don't believe that this is the case. Already-enabled services will still have to be shut down manually, as far as I am aware. 216-3 just applies new installations (as was the case with the issues caused by 216-1).

And this.

Thanks for everything, I resolved by disabling the service since right now I'm not using it. However, there must be a solution to this error and someone that would use the Kerberos protocol could find this post useful if the issue is managed.