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**tim.mooney** · 13-07-2020, 22:12

You reported a lot of useful information, but you didn't include what version of Zabbix you're using and whether it's from official packages, direct from source, etc.

I see the same issue, and others that have reported unrelated problems that have included systemctl output often have the same message. It seems like it's a bug in their systemctl service definition file, but I haven't looked into what the fix might be.

**ñull** · 29-12-2020, 12:42

Same version but now under Ubuntu 20.04LTS, I see the same issue. Is there already a fix?

**samarcos** · 21-05-2021, 02:11

I am getting the same issue with Ubuntu 18.04,
Any fixes?
looked everywhere and nothing

**marianogedisman** · 25-10-2021, 02:29

Getting the same error on Debian10 on Google Cloud. Anyone still watching this thread?

Code:

● zabbix-server.service - Zabbix Server

Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

Active: activating (start) since Mon 2021-10-25 00:07:29 UTC; 21min ago

Process: 1248 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_server -c $CONFFILE (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Tasks: 0 (limit: 609)

Memory: 284.0K

CGroup: /system.slice/zabbix-server.service




Oct 25 00:07:29 zabbix systemd[1]: Starting Zabbix Server...

Oct 25 00:07:29 zabbix systemd[1]: zabbix-server.service: Can't open PID file /run/zabbix/zabbix_server.pid (yet?) after start: No such file

Oct 25 00:07:29 zabbix zabbix_server[1248]: zabbix_server [1250]: cannot open "/var/log/zabbix-server/zabbix_server.log": [13] Permission den

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**marianogedisman** · 25-10-2021, 16:43

Originally posted by cyber

Some permission issues along the path? For logfile it is even saying that "Permission denied"...

Hello cyber! Thanks a lot for chipping in. Yes, I noticed the second error. I was also a bit more worried about the first one: „

Code:

Oct 25 00:07:29 zabbix systemd[1]: zabbix-server.service: Can't open PID file /run/zabbix/zabbix_server.pid (yet?) after start: No such file

“

Where can I get the file to put it in the corresponding directory?

Thanks in advance!

**Atsushi** · 28-10-2021, 06:18

The first question is, in the command output described, it seems that the startup was successful after the error message output. When you check the status with the systemctl command, several lines of past logs are displayed, so it is necessary to check whether the service is currently running. Did you mistakenly judge that it was an error by looking at the past logs?

Check the following items to see if the service is running.
- Existence of processes using the ps command
- Active and running in the output of the systemctl status command
- Is it stuck with an error at the last line of the agent log file?
- The existence in the PID file matches the PID of the agent whose contents are running

Immediately after installing the package, there is no directory and an error occurs, but if it is immediately recovered by settings and functions such as systemd and the service is started, there is no problem.

**ñull** · 29-10-2021, 14:34

Originally posted by Atsushi

The first question is, in the command output described, it seems that the startup was successful after the error message output.

Yes it is succesful. ps processes exist and are the same that systemctl status lists. No error at the end of the log file and the PID in /run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid matches with the one that systemctl status lists as the first. So in my case the warning or error message does not affect the functionality. May be an error in the start script?

**cyber** · 23-12-2021, 23:24

Some permission issues along the path? For logfile it is even saying that "Permission denied"...

**cyber** · 23-12-2021, 23:26

pid file is just a file where process number is stored (in this case zabbix_server main process). it is created automatically during startup. If it fails to do so, then there might be permission issues along the path and user zabbix is not able to create that file.

**madeforyalo** · 11-10-2022, 15:35

buenos días, estimados.

comparto con ustedes lo que hice para solucionar este problema

lo que note fue que el directorio /run/zabbix no existía, y mucho menos el archivo zabbix_agentd.pid

asi que la forma que tuve de solucionarlo fue crear ese directorio y archivo:

cd /run

mkdir zabbix

cd zabbix

touch zabbix_agentd.pid

cd ..

chown -R zabbix:zabbix zabbix/

systemctl restart zabbix-agent

con eso fue mas que suficiente. No sé la razón por la que en primer lugar desapareció ese directorio, pero con esos pasos mi zabbix ya anda correctamente.
espero que les sirva.

Saludos.

**zigzag** · 11-12-2022, 10:35

I have to in /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf enable PidFile=/var/run/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.pid

**LenR** · 11-12-2022, 21:46

I think this is an issue I'm seeing a lot. If the symptoms are that zabbix works after install, then gets this error after a reboot? If so, here is what I've done to fix and what I think is the cause:

/run has to tmpfs in recent yeares. Zabbix creates /var/run/zabbix at install, so the first start works. After system reboot, tmpfs is gone, so this error.

I've done systemctl edit zabbix-<whichever> and added RuntimeDirectory=/var/run/zabbix

NOTE that on my systems, /var/run is a symlink to /run (or the other way around) so it's really the same place.

Another method is to add a /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ config

**ouarit** · 02-07-2024, 18:23

I checked the path on my /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf

it was on /run/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.pid

In my case, I made the next steps

Code:

mkdir /run/zabbix
touch /run/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.pid

chown -R zabbix:zabbix /run/zabbix
systemctl restart zabbix-proxy

And it works for me.

Code:

● zabbix-proxy.service - Zabbix Proxy
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-proxy.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-07-02 10:16:20 CST; 6min ago
  Process: 3259 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy -c $CONFFILE (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS

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