Dependency failed for Bareos File Daemon service Centos 7

Posted on March 20, 2019  •  1 minutes  • 162 words

When installing Bareos client on Centos 7, I could not start the service with the following “cryptical error” :

[root@svennd ~]# systemctl restart bareos-fd
A dependency job for bareos-fd.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details.
[root@svennd ~]# systemctl status bareos-fd
● bareos-fd.service - Bareos File Daemon service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bareos-fd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled                                                                                                                        )
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:bareos-fd(8)
Mar 20 18:06:11 svennd.be systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Bareos File Daemon service.
Mar 20 18:06:11 svennd.be systemd[1]: Job bareos-fd.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Mar 20 18:06:29 svennd.be systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Bareos File Daemon service.
Mar 20 18:06:29 svennd.be systemd[1]: Job bareos-fd.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.

This means the Bareos server will keep trying and eventually fail to backup this client; The “workaround” is found in this closed ticket. On the client change :

nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/bareos-fd.service

Comment this line : (add #)

#Requires=nss-lookup.target network.target remote-fs.target time-sync.target

Reload & restart the service, it should now start normally :

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start bareos-fd