fail to start zabbix proxy service

[newbie70]

I setup my first zabbix proxy on a virtual machine (Ubuntu server 22.04), I follow these instrunctions

https://bestmonitoringtools.com/install-zabbix-proxy-on-ubuntu/?utm_content=cmp-true

Everything seems fine but when I launch

 sudo systemctl start zabbix-proxy

this is the result

Job for zabbix-proxy.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status zabbix-proxy.service" and "journalctl -xeu zabbix-proxy.service" for details.
​

The command

sudo systemctl status zabbix-proxy

show this:

 zabbix-proxy.service - Zabbix Proxy
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-proxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2023-04-06 11:28:02 UTC; 6s ago
    Process: 1589 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy -c $CONFFILE (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 15ms

Apr 06 11:28:02 ubuntu systemd[1]: zabbix-proxy.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 06 11:28:02 ubuntu systemd[1]: zabbix-proxy.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 06 11:28:02 ubuntu systemd[1]: Failed to start Zabbix Proxy.
​

There is no log file in var/log/zabbix.

[cyber]

You can check if you can run that ExecStart command (/usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy -c $CONFFILE) manually. Switch to zabbix user and replace $CONFFILE with real path to config file... you might get some more (error) messages, which can help you to resolve issue...

[newbie70]

There was an error in cfg file with parameter ProxyConfigFrequency, I fix it but if I try to start the service this is the error:

sudo systemctl start zabbix-proxy.service
Job for zabbix-proxy.service failed because the service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration.
See "systemctl status zabbix-proxy.service" and "journalctl -xeu zabbix-proxy.service" for details.
​

[newbie70]

Solved. There was an error in database, I drop it and recreate another zabbix database. Now works.

[ehsan]

are you using the sqllite databse ? i am getting the same error