[FROG] Failed to start frr.service: Unit frr.service not found

Quentin Young qlyoung at cumulusnetworks.com
Mon Dec 9 13:58:31 EST 2019


That means it worked, and you can now perform an `apt update` followed by
`apt install frr`.

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:16 PM <ian.2.oakley at bt.com> wrote:

> Hi Alexis,
>
> Ignore the previous message I sent, I managed to get past that step.
> However, I'm now stuck on a different step.
> When I enter the command "echo deb https://deb.frrouting.org/frr
> $(lsb_release -s -c) $FRRVER | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/frr.list"
> I get "deb https://deb.frrouting.org/frr bionic"
> What does that mean?
>
> Best regards,
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexis Bauvin <abauvin at scaleway.com>
> Sent: 09 December 2019 16:30
> To: Oakley,I,Ian,TUS2 R <ian.2.oakley at bt.com>
> Cc: sharpd at cumulusnetworks.com; frog at lists.frrouting.org
> Subject: Re: [FROG] Failed to start frr.service: Unit frr.service not found
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> Since you’re running Ubuntu, the simplest way to get FRR installed the
> right way for production (not development) is through the official APT
> repository holding prepackaged DEB files: https://deb.frrouting.org
>
> Regards,
> Alexis
>
> (re-send due to using wrong email address)
>
> > Le 9 déc. 2019 à 14:14, <ian.2.oakley at bt.com> <ian.2.oakley at bt.com> a
> écrit :
> >
> > Hi Donald,
> >
> > I don't have Slack unfortunately. I assume uninstalling and then
> reinstalling FRR, but this time in the correct location, would help;
> however, I can't find in the Installation guide (
> docs.frrouting.org/en/latest/installation.html) where I should install
> FRR. Where should I install it?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ian
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Donald Sharp <sharpd at cumulusnetworks.com>
> > Sent: 09 December 2019 13:10
> > To: Oakley,I,Ian,TUS2 R <ian.2.oakley at bt.com>
> > Subject: Re: [FROG] Failed to start frr.service: Unit frr.service not
> > found
> >
> > Ian -
> >
> > Can you join us in our slack?  Goto https://frrouting.org and click on
> the slack link for a self-invite.  I suspect there are more than a few
> things wrong and it might be a faster way to communicate and work through
> the issues.
> >
> > donald
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 8:07 AM <ian.2.oakley at bt.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Donald,
> >>
> >> The output of journalctl -f, after I copied frr.service into
> /etc/system/system, is:
> >> Dec 09 13:00:29 IanRed systemd[16172]: frr.service: Failed at step
> >> EXEC spawning /usr/lib/frr/frrinit.sh: No such file or directory Dec
> >> 09 13:00:29 IanRed systemd[1]: frr.service: Control process exited,
> code=exited status=203 Dec 09 13:00:29 IanRed systemd[1]: frr.service:
> Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> >> Dec 09 13:00:29 IanRed systemd[1]: Failed to start FRRouting.
> >> Dec 09 13:00:29 IanRed systemd[1]: frr.service: Triggering OnFailure=
> dependencies.
> >> Dec 09 13:00:29 IanRed systemd[1]: frr.service: Failed to enqueue
> >> OnFailure= job: No such file or directory Dec 09 13:00:29 IanRed
> >> sudo[16143]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root Dec
> 09 13:01:30 IanRed systemd[1]: Started Run anacron jobs.
> >> Dec 09 13:01:30 IanRed anacron[16187]: Anacron 2.3 started on
> >> 2019-12-09 Dec 09 13:01:30 IanRed anacron[16187]: Normal exit (0 jobs
> >> run)
> >>
> >> I don't have a /etc/frr directory; this I presume is because I
> installed such that the home directory is located in /home/user/.
> >>
> >> Hope that helps.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Ian
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Donald Sharp <sharpd at cumulusnetworks.com>
> >> Sent: 09 December 2019 12:55
> >> To: Oakley,I,Ian,TUS2 R <ian.2.oakley at bt.com>
> >> Cc: frog <frog at lists.frrouting.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [FROG] Failed to start frr.service: Unit frr.service not
> >> found
> >>
> >> Ian -
> >>
> >> What's the contents of your `/etc/frr/daemons` file as well as the
> output of `journalctl -f` from when you do a systemctl start frr?
> >>
> >> donald
> >>
> >> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 7:27 AM <ian.2.oakley at bt.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I installed FRR on my Ubuntu virtual machine from source, hoping to
> use it with CORE for multicast routing with PIM.
> >>> However, I haven’t been able to manage even that; when I attempt to
> >>> start the FRR service (sudo service frr start) I am given the error
> >>> message in the subject (Failed to start frr.service: Unit
> >>> frr.service not found.)
> >>>
> >>> This is despite me running the command in my /frr/tools directory
> where frr.service is located.
> >>>
> >>> Am I missing something here?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>>
> >>> Ian Oakley
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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