Error while updating to 1.5.3 (2018120800) - Failed to get unit file state for networking.service

**freedom** · Jan 12th 2019

Hello again,

as Nuxwin stated here, I updated the i-mscp instance to the new build number, while a new error occured.

Distro: Debian Jessie 8.7

I-MSCP Version: 1.5.3 (error with newest build number in the last step)

In the last step of the updating process, the installer aborted with the following error.

Code

[ERROR] main::setupDbTasks: Modules::ServerIP::add: Failed to get unit file state for networking.service: No such file or directory at /usr/local/src/imscp-1.5.3-2018120800/engine/PerlLib/iMSCP/Provider/Service/Debian/Systemd.pm line 64.
...propagated at /usr/local/src/imscp-1.5.3-2018120800/engine/PerlLib/iMSCP/DbTasksProcessor.pm line 496.
[ERROR] autoinstaller::Functions::install: An error occurred while performing installation steps

Didn't had such problems before. And we don't want to update to Debian Stretch, because we're already setting up an new server with the newest Debian and I-MSCP Version. We just want to update the old one, as stated from Nuxwin, to prevend any more complications while we're migrating our pages and projects one by one. The error points to an missing file in the update folder, is this correct?

Kind regards,

freedom

**Nuxwin** · Jan 12th 2019

Re,

There is no missing file... I'll make a test on Debian Jessie. As I suspect, systemd version from jessie is not able to say if one service is enabled when only the sysvinit script is provided. Give me some minutes to investigate please.

**Nuxwin** · Jan 12th 2019

freedom

I cannot reproduce the issue.

Distribution version

Shell-Script

root@jessie64:/usr/local/src/imscp-1.5.3-2018120800# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.11 (jessie)
Release: 8.11
Codename: jessie

Systemd version

Shell-Script

root@jessie64:/usr/local/src/imscp-1.5.3-2018120800# systemd --version
systemd 215
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ -SECCOMP -APPARMOR

The part which should fails

Shell-Script

...
[DEBUG] iMSCP::DbTasksProcessor::processDbTasks: Processing Modules::ServerIP tasks...
[DEBUG] iMSCP::DbTasksProcessor::processDbTasks: Processing Modules::ServerIP tasks for: 192.168.1.133 (ID 1)
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::execute: /bin/systemctl is-enabled networking
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Provider::Service::Abstract::_exec: enabled
[DEBUG] iMSCP::DbTasksProcessor::processDbTasks: Processing Modules::ServerIP tasks for: 192.168.1.134 (ID 2)
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::execute: ip addr del 192.168.1.134/24 dev eth0
[DEBUG] iMSCP::Execute::execute: ip -4 addr add 192.168.1.134/24 dev eth0
...

So please first, upgrade your system. Latest Debian Jessie is 8.11, not 8.7.

Shell-Script

# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade

Once done, retry. If after that the problem still occurs, you'll have to provide me a access to the server for further investigation.

**Nuxwin** · Jan 12th 2019

freedom

If you make a dist upgrade as stated in my previous answer this should solve the problem. The is-enabled API support for SysVinit scripts has been added lately in Debian Jessie systemd package:

Code

systemd (215-17+deb8u7) stable; urgency=medium
* bus: Fix bus_print_property() to use "int" for booleans.
This fixes the problem that on big endian architectures, like mips or
powerpc, boolean properties that were retrieved via sd-bus were always
set to 0 (no). (Closes: #774430)
* systemctl: Add is-enabled support for SysV init scripts.
The update-rc.d utility does not provide is-enabled, so implement it
ourselves in systemctl using the same logic as systemd-sysv-install from
Stretch. (Closes: #809405)
* core: If the start command vanishes during runtime don't hit an assert.
This can happen when the configuration is changed and reloaded while we
are executing a service. Let's not hit an assert in this case.
(Closes: #856985)
* automount: If an automount unit is masked, don't react to activation
anymore.
Otherwise we'll hit an assert sooner or later. (Closes: #856035)
-- Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> Fri, 10 Mar 2017 06:02:49 +0100

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Basically put, you have an older version of the systemd package.

Don't forget for the furture: Before updating i-MSCP, you need always update your system, as stated in the documentation.

Latest systemd package under Jessie is:

Shell-Script

root@jessie64:/usr/local/src/systemd/systemd-215/debian# LANG=C apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
Installed: 215-17+deb8u8
Candidate: 215-17+deb8u8
Version table:
*** 215-17+deb8u8 0
500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
215-17+deb8u7 0
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages

**Nuxwin** · Jan 13th 2019

Issue fixed in https://github.com/i-MSCP/imsc…a32031d4a4ce2554b9e44a39f

Error while updating to 1.5.3 (2018120800) - Failed to get unit file state for networking.service

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