Your message dated Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:20:07 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#1108444: redis-server: "systemctl start redis-server"
command fails; "redis-server" command in shell works
has caused the Debian Bug report #1108444,
regarding redis-server: "systemctl start redis-server" command fails;
"redis-server" command in shell works
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Package: redis-server
Version: redis-server/testing 5:8.0.0-2 amd64
Severity: important\
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
Attempted to install "redis" package (using apt) for use with WordPress
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I attempted to run Redis using the "systemctl start redis-server" cammand
* What was the outcome of this action?
Error messages about the restart count exceeding 5
* What outcome did you expect instead?
No errors, and a running redis-server daemon
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.32-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages redis-server depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.68
pn redis-tools <none>
redis-server recommends no packages.
redis-server suggests no packages.
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Randolf Richardson wrote:
> Perhaps the error that "systemctl status redis" shows can be
> updated to note that this module doesn't work under containers (if
> operating within a container)? I don't know if this will be a
> difficult thing to do, but I suspect it could save a lot of time
> for a lot of Linux administrators in the future as containerizatin
> is becoming more common.
That's an interesting idea. However, I don't believe systemd offers
the ability to do that, unfortunately.
> I think I discovered the issue -- Redis Server doesn't work in a
> Podman container. It needs to run outside of that (I can get it to
> run easily outside of a Podman container).
Closing this bug as requested, although do reopen it if you think that
Redis should indeed work within podman - I've not used this container
technology myself.
Regards,
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