Amavis won't start on systemctl

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.1 that I have installed ISPConfig 3 on. I've done this same install multiple times with no problems. For some reason this time Amavis won't start at all using init scripts.

If I run `systemctl restart amavis` it gives me this:

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    amavis.service - LSB: Starts amavisd-new mailfilter
       Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/amavis; generated)
       Active: active (exited) since Thu 2018-09-20 08:52:55 EDT; 1s ago
         Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
      Process: 3587 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/amavis stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
      Process: 3596 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/amavis start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   
    Sep 20 08:52:55 mx2.proverbs.microtronix-tech.com systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Starts amavisd-new mailfilter...
    Sep 20 08:52:55 mx2.proverbs.microtronix-tech.com amavis[3596]: Starting amavisd:
    Sep 20 08:52:55 mx2.proverbs.microtronix-tech.com amavis[3596]: Warning: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing.
    Sep 20 08:52:55 mx2.proverbs.microtronix-tech.com amavis[3596]: amavisd-new.
    Sep 20 08:52:55 mx2.proverbs.microtronix-tech.com systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts amavisd-new mailfilter.

Then running `netstat -tap | grep amavis` returns nothing. Checking syslog there are no conceivable errors other than the `Fake start-stop-daemon` error.

However, if I run `amavisd-new debug` it starts fine, and netstat does return results:

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    tcp        0      0 localhost:10024         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3986/amavisd-new (m 
    tcp        0      0 localhost:10026         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3986/amavisd-new (m 
    tcp6       0      0 localhost:10024         [::]:*                  LISTEN      3986/amavisd-new (m 
    tcp6       0      0 localhost:10026         [::]:*                  LISTEN      3986/amavisd-new (m

So I don't think it's the config since it start fine there and mail delivery then works on this server. But through init scripts it doesn't start.

 

Did the install finish without errors?
Check /var/log/dpkg.log.
Run

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dpkg --list | grep -v "^ii"

To see if some installed package is not installed completely.

 

No, i didn’t have any errors during install.

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Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                  Version                            Architecture Description
+++-=====================================-==================================-============-===============================================================================
rc  apparmor                              2.12-4ubuntu5                      amd64        user-space parser utility for AppArmor

I followed how to forge’ guide on Ubuntu 18 install of ispconfig3. This same process worked fine for mx1, but errors on mx2.

Is there some known error on 18? Since dovecot is also not automatically syncing between mx1 and 2, it does manually just not automatically. I’ve got the same setup for 16 with no issues, this is my first 18 server and it is riddled with issues.

 

I should mention mx1 also has that same output, but no errors with amavis as mx2 does. I also removed and purged apparmor before installing all components.

 

I don't understand what the fake start-stop-daemon is about. Check on your host like this:

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dpkg --listfiles dpkg | grep -i start

ls -lh /sbin/start*

file  /sbin/start*

Do you have several start-stop-daemon* files in your /sbin? Or somewhere else, check with

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locate start-stop-daemon