Assuming you are running an Ubuntu archive version of haproxy you should consider opening a bug in launchpad as well. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/haproxy/+filebug
It sounds like there's a missing dependency in the unit file against DNS or network, but I haven't looked into it other than what you've mentioned here. Dave. On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 7:57 PM Bill Waggoner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 8:44 PM Kevin Decherf <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On 8 May 2018 02:32:01 CEST, Bill Waggoner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >Anyway, when the system boots haproxy fails to start. Unfortunately I >> >forgot to save the systemctl status message but the impression I get is >> >that it's starting too soon. >> >> You can find all past logs of your service using `journalctl -u >> haproxy.service`. If journal persistence is off you'll not be able to look >> at logs sent before the last boot. >> >> >> -- >> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse my brevity. >> > > Thank you, that was very helpful. I am new to systemd so please forgive my > lack of knowledge. > > Looking at the messages it looks like one server was failing to start. > That one happens to have a name instead of a static address in the server > definition. My guess is that DNS isn't available yet when haproxy was > starting and the retries are so quick that it didn't have time to recover. > > I'll simply change that to a literal IP address as all the others are. > > Thanks! > > Bill Waggoner > -- > Bill Waggoner > [email protected] > {Even Old Dogs can learn new tricks!} >

