* Alex <g...@gmx.net> [2024-11-01 13:29]:
10) systemd eventually times out the start of ejabberd
According to your logs, the actual ejabberd process was started just fine. However, the systemd unit then calls `ejabberdctl started` in order to block until startup is completed, and _that_ process hangs. `ejabberdctl started` tries to talk to the running ejabberd process via TCP, I'd assume there's some issue with that connection, and we could try to track that down.
However, it might make sense to make `ejabberdctl foreground` work (which doesn't involve such a connection), first. Could you set the log level to 'debug' and show us the output of that command?