SFTPGO installs, but refuses to run (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

[LouisAtGH]

I tried to install sftpgo on a Ubuntu LTS 22.04 VM (on truenas scale). In multiple ways using:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sftpgo/sftpgo
• downloading the latest package (wget https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo/releases/download/v$VER/sftpgo_$VER-1_amd64.deb)
• using sudo
• sudo su root
  All options did lead to the same result:

systemctl start sftpgo

systemctl status sftpgo --no-pager -l

sftpgo.service - SFTPGo Server

 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/sftpgo.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
 Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2023-05-23 13:01:53 UTC; 4s ago
Process: 7719 ExecStart=/usr/bin/sftpgo serve (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Main PID: 7719 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CPU: 77ms

Note that:

• ufw firewall is active (however sftpgo is not running at all)
• the VM has a couple of IPV4 and IPV6 addresses assigned for multiple purposes
• just as mysql, apache and axigen mail server
• I noticed that the repository version is different (newer) than the downloaded version I tried as second install option
• sudo apt list --upgradable
  Listing... Done
  apport/jammy-updates 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5 all [upgradable from: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.4]
  dpkg/jammy-updates 1.21.1ubuntu2.2 amd64 [upgradable from: 1.21.1ubuntu2.1]
  python3-apport/jammy-updates 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5 all [upgradable from: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.4]
  python3-problem-report/jammy-updates 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5 all [upgradable from: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.4]
  However those updates are not installed
  sudo apt upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages have been kept back:
  apport dpkg python3-apport python3-problem-report
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
• I did install the package in the past ... and by that time it worked ...

What ever .... the package does not run now, not when installed from the repository, not when installed using the package, not when installed as user using sudo and not when installed as root ...

So I need some help

Louis

[LouisAtGH]

I found the problem. I become so smart to have a look at syslog 'smile' where the main problem turned out to be that port 8080 was all ready in use.

sudo lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN showed me that Apache was listening to that port (on a specific IP). I changed that and that solved the problem.

It would have been nice if the installer would have shown that ...

What ever, problem solved .