# balenaEngine Daemon

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaengine-daemon/4588>\
**Category:** balenaEngine\
**Created:** [December 3, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaengine-daemon/4588 "2018-12-03T12:03:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![rlev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@rlev](https://forums.balena.io/u/rlev)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaengine-daemon/4588/1 "2018-12-03T12:03:25Z")

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Hi guys,

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

How to start the balenaEngine service (Daemon) ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![rlev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@rlev](https://forums.balena.io/u/rlev)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaengine-daemon/4588/2 "2018-12-03T21:06:47Z")

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I have follow :

> <https://github.com/balena-os/balena-engine/issues/55>

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](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](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

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**Author:** ![aliasbits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71c47a/32.png) [@aliasbits](https://forums.balena.io/u/aliasbits)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaengine-daemon/4588/3 "2019-09-04T08:28:08Z")

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[Secrets, .balena and balena engine](https://forums.balena.io/t/secrets-balena-and-balena-engine/29141/10) provides a balena-engine daemon solution

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**Author:** ![nazrhom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@nazrhom](https://forums.balena.io/u/nazrhom)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/balenaengine-daemon/4588/5 "2019-09-04T09:17:56Z")

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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