Package: redis-server Version: 3:3.2.6-1 Severity: important Summary: The startup scripts for redis-server failed when run on a freshly installed Debian 9.1 server.
Debian release & kernel: # cat /etc/debian_version 9.1 # uname -a Linux mx12 2.6.32-042stab125.5 #1 SMP Tue Oct 17 12:48:22 MSK 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux Command run to produce the error, and the errors: # apt-get install redis-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libaio1 libcgi-fast-perl libcgi-pm-perl libdbi-perl libencode-locale-perl libfcgi-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-template-perl libhttp-date-perl libhttp-message-perl libio-html-perl liblwp-mediatypes-perl libopts25 libreadline5 libterm-readkey-perl libtimedate-perl liburi-perl socat Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: redis-server 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 413 kB of archives. After this operation, 1063 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 redis-server amd64 3:3.2.6-1 [413 kB] Fetched 413 kB in 0s (3127 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package redis-server. (Reading database ... 34119 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../redis-server_3%3a3.2.6-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking redis-server (3:3.2.6-1) ... Processing triggers for systemd (232-25+deb9u1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ... Setting up redis-server (3:3.2.6-1) ... Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/redis.service → /lib/systemd/system/redis-server.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/redis-server.service → /lib/systemd/system/redis-server.service. Job for redis-server.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status redis-server.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript redis-server, action "start" failed. ● redis-server.service - Advanced key-value store Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/redis-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2017-12-05 09:52:12 UTC; 19ms ago Docs: http://redis.io/documentation, man:redis-server(1) Process: 21728 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf (code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE) Process: 21725 ExecStartPre=/bin/run-parts --verbose /etc/redis/redis-server.pre-up.d (code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE) Dec 05 09:52:12 mx12 systemd[1]: Failed to start Advanced key-value store. Dec 05 09:52:12 mx12 systemd[1]: redis-server.service: Unit entered failed state. Dec 05 09:52:12 mx12 systemd[1]: redis-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. dpkg: error processing package redis-server (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for systemd (232-25+deb9u1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: redis-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)