balenaEngine Daemon

Product support balenaEngine
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Hi guys,

After install balenaEngine in a Linux system using :
curl -sfL https://balena.io/engine/install.sh | sh

How to start the balenaEngine service (Daemon) ?

Thanks

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I have follow :

But at the end when I execute in the terminal “systemctl start balena-engine” as root I get :
A dependency job for balena-engine.service failed. See ‘journalctl -xe’ for details.

After I execute “journalctl -xe” in the terminal the relevant message for balena-engine are :

– Unit balena-engine.socket has begun starting up.
Dec 03 20:54:19 imx6ul-var-dart systemd[2558]: Failed to chown socket at step GROUP: No such process
Dec 03 20:54:19 imx6ul-var-dart systemd[1]: balena-engine.socket: Control process exited, code=exited status=216
Dec 03 20:54:19 imx6ul-var-dart systemd[1]: Failed to listen on Docker Socket for the API.
– Subject: Unit balena-engine.socket has failed
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: https://www.debian.org/support

– Unit balena-engine.socket has failed.

– The result is failed.
Dec 03 20:54:19 imx6ul-var-dart systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Docker Application Container Engine.
– Subject: Unit balena-engine.service has failed
– Defined-By: systemd
– Support: https://www.debian.org/support

– Unit balena-engine.service has failed.

– The result is dependency.
Dec 03 20:54:19 imx6ul-var-dart systemd[1]: balena-engine.service: Job balena-engine.service/start failed with result ‘dependency’.
Dec 03 20:54:19 imx6ul-var-dart systemd[1]: balena-engine.socket: Unit entered failed state.

Can someone help me out to figure this error ?

Thanks

3

Secrets, .balena and balena engine provides a balena-engine daemon solution

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Hey @rlev the linked thread should contain the required steps to set this up correctly, feel free to follow-up here or in that thread if you run into any issues