can't start zabbix-proxy service on CentOS7 with installation repository

[leosted]

Errors:

Command:
systemctl start zabbix-proxy.service

Error
Job for zabbix-proxy.service failed. See 'systemctl status zabbix-proxy.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.


Command:
systemctl status zabbix-proxy.service

Return:
zabbix-proxy.service - Zabbix Proxy
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-proxy.service; disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Qui 2014-11-20 16:21:43 BRT; 41s ago
Process: 2436 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy -c $CONFFILE (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 20 16:21:43 dczabbixproxy-01 systemd[1]: zabbix-proxy.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Nov 20 16:21:43 dczabbixproxy-01 systemd[1]: Failed to start Zabbix Proxy.
Nov 20 16:21:43 dczabbixproxy-01 systemd[1]: Unit zabbix-proxy.service entered failed state.
Nov 20 16:21:43 dczabbixproxy-01 systemd[1]: zabbix-proxy.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Nov 20 16:21:43 dczabbixproxy-01 systemd[1]: Stopping Zabbix Proxy...
Nov 20 16:21:43 dczabbixproxy-01 systemd[1]: Starting Zabbix Proxy...
Nov 20 16:21:43 dczabbixproxy-01 systemd[1]: zabbix-proxy.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Nov 20 16:21:43 dczabbixproxy-01 systemd[1]: Failed to start Zabbix Proxy.
Nov 20 16:21:43 dczabbixproxy-01 systemd[1]: Unit zabbix-proxy.service entered failed state.

[tchjts1]

What happens if you try to start it manually?
<path to proxy binary>/zabbix_proxy -c <path to proxy conf>/zabbix_proxy.conf

On my setup, that translates to:
/usr/local/sbin/zabbix_proxy -c /usr/local/etc/zabbix_proxy.conf

[leosted]

I run manually and start normal:
/usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf

zabbix 25731 1.0 0.1 141532 3004 ? S 10:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf
zabbix 25732 0.0 0.1 141920 2760 ? S 10:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy: configuration syncer [synced config 154 bytes in 0.002951 sec, idle 3600 sec]
zabbix 25733 0.0 0.1 141532 1892 ? S 10:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy: heartbeat sender [sending heartbeat message failed in 0.028062 sec, idle 60 sec]
zabbix 25734 0.0 0.1 141920 2528 ? S 10:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy: data sender [sent 0 values in 0.000329 sec, idle 30 sec]
zabbix 25735 0.5 0.2 246760 4812 ? S 10:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy: poller #1 [got 0 values in 0.000015 sec, idle 5 sec]
....more
zabbix 25771 0.0 0.1 142264 2516 ? S 10:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy: ipmi poller #5 [got 0 values in 0.000017 sec, idle 5 sec]
zabbix 25772 0.0 0.0 141532 1572 ? S 10:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy: self-monitoring [processed data in 0.000005 sec, idle 1 sec]

[leosted]

this may be something wrong in the file zabbix-proxy.service?

[tchjts1]

I don't know. I have never tried doing it the way you are doing it.
I simply use the manual command.

Find what the variable is for $CONFFILE, maybe the path is not right.

[billjam]

update path

I had to change /usr/lib/systemd/system/zabbix-proxy.service to say:
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/zabbix_proxy -c /etc/zabbix/zabbix-proxy.conf
$CONFFILE didn't work even when I corrected path.

of course maybe a better config path would be /etc/zabbix/zabbix_proxy.conf (underscore not dash) since that is what previous versions used and also what's included in rpm.

[derli1988]

Here's how I fixed the issue

I've added these 3 lines into MySQL initiation file

disable_log_bin
log_bin_trust_function_creators=1
skip-log-bin

I then restart mysql, and then zabbix-proxy