I have recently installed the latest Packetfence version 9.0.3 on Linux using 
yum and have everything working except RADIUS AUTH and ACCT and mariadb daemons 
. I am a security engineer and not great at linux does any of the below output 
help.

Tried google and mailing list but my searches didn’t match anything concrete.


root@packetfence system]# systemctl list-units
packetfence-radiusd-acct.service                                                
  loaded activating start-pre start PacketFence FreeRADIUS multi-protocol 
accounting server
packetfence-radiusd-auth.service                                                
  loaded activating start-pre start PacketFence FreeRADIUS authentication 
multi-protocol authentication server


[root@packetfence system]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Aug  2 15:37:57 packetfence systemd: Stopped PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server.
Aug  2 15:37:57 packetfence systemd: Starting PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server...
Aug  2 15:38:03 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-auth.service: control 
process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug  2 15:38:03 packetfence systemd: Failed to start PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server.
Aug  2 15:38:03 packetfence systemd: Unit packetfence-radiusd-auth.service 
entered failed state.
Aug  2 15:38:03 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-auth.service failed.
Aug  2 15:38:03 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-auth.service holdoff 
time over, scheduling restart.
Aug  2 15:38:03 packetfence systemd: Cannot add dependency job for unit 
mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug  2 15:38:03 packetfence systemd: Stopped PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server.
Aug  2 15:38:03 packetfence systemd: Starting PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server...
Aug  2 15:38:06 packetfence pfcmd: service|command
Aug  2 15:38:06 packetfence pfcmd: radiusd-acct|config generated
Aug  2 15:38:06 packetfence pfcmd: radiusd-auth|config generated
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-auth.service: control 
process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Failed to start PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Unit packetfence-radiusd-auth.service 
entered failed state.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-auth.service failed.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-acct.service: control 
process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Failed to start PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
multi-protocol accounting server.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Unit packetfence-radiusd-acct.service 
entered failed state.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-acct.service failed.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-acct.service holdoff 
time over, scheduling restart.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Cannot add dependency job for unit 
mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-auth.service holdoff 
time over, scheduling restart.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Cannot add dependency job for unit 
mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Stopped PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Starting PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server...
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Stopped PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
multi-protocol accounting server.
Aug  2 15:38:07 packetfence systemd: Starting PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
multi-protocol accounting server...
qAug  2 15:38:11 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-auth.service: control 
process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug  2 15:38:11 packetfence systemd: Failed to start PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server.
Aug  2 15:38:11 packetfence systemd: Unit packetfence-radiusd-auth.service 
entered failed state.
Aug  2 15:38:11 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-auth.service failed.
Aug  2 15:38:12 packetfence systemd: packetfence-radiusd-auth.service holdoff 
time over, scheduling restart.
Aug  2 15:38:12 packetfence systemd: Cannot add dependency job for unit 
mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug  2 15:38:12 packetfence systemd: Stopped PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server.
Aug  2 15:38:12 packetfence systemd: Starting PacketFence FreeRADIUS 
authentication multi-protocol authentication server...




[root@packetfence system]# systemctl status mariadb.service
● mariadb.service
   Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Aug 02 15:39:12 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug 02 15:39:15 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug 02 15:39:18 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug 02 15:39:23 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug 02 15:39:25 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug 02 15:39:27 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug 02 15:39:31 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug 02 15:39:34 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug 02 15:39:35 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Aug 02 15:39:39 packetfence.gbst.net systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for 
unit mariadb.service, ignoring: Unit is masked.
Warning: mariadb.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to 
reload units.


Pfconfig.log output but stops after boot completes.

Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: pfconfig(1307) ERROR: [mac:[undef]] 
Caught error DBI 
connect('database=packetfence_db;host=localhost;port=3306','packetfence',...) 
failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2 "No such file or directory") at 
/usr/local/pf/lib/pfconfig/backend/mysql.pm line 47.
while connecting to database. (pfconfig::backend::mysql::_get_db)
Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: Could not write namespace 
config::Pf(packetfence.gbst.net) to L2 cache !
Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: pfconfig(1307) ERROR: [mac:[undef]] 
Couldn't connect to MySQL database to access L2. This is a major problem ! 
Check the MySQL section in /usr/local/pf/conf/pfconfig.conf and make sure your 
database schema is up to date ! (pfconfig::backend::mysql::_db_error)
Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: pfconfig(1307) ERROR: [mac:[undef]] Could 
not write namespace config::Pf(packetfence.gbst.net) to L2 cache ! 
(pfconfig::manager::cache_resource)
Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: pfconfig(1307) ERROR: [mac:[undef]] 
Caught error DBI 
connect('database=packetfence_db;host=localhost;port=3306','packetfence',...) 
failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2 "No such file or directory") at 
/usr/local/pf/lib/pfconfig/backend/mysql.pm line 47.
while connecting to database. (pfconfig::backend::mysql::_get_db)
Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: pfconfig(1307) ERROR: [mac:[undef]] 
Couldn't connect to MySQL database to access L2. This is a major problem ! 
Check the MySQL section in /usr/local/pf/conf/pfconfig.conf and make sure your 
database schema is up to date ! (pfconfig::backend::mysql::_db_error)
Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: pfconfig(1307) ERROR: [mac:[undef]] 
Caught error DBI 
connect('database=packetfence_db;host=localhost;port=3306','packetfence',...) 
failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2 "No such file or directory") at 
/usr/local/pf/lib/pfconfig/backend/mysql.pm line 47.
while connecting to database. (pfconfig::backend::mysql::_get_db)
Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: pfconfig(1307) ERROR: [mac:[undef]] 
Couldn't connect to MySQL database to access L2. This is a major problem ! 
Check the MySQL section in /usr/local/pf/conf/pfconfig.conf and make sure your 
database schema is up to date ! (pfconfig::backend::mysql::_db_error)
Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: Could not write namespace 
interfaces::management_network(packetfence.gbst.net) to L2 cache !
Aug  2 09:28:02 packetfence pfconfig: pfconfig(1307) ERROR: [mac:[undef]] Could 
not write namespace interfaces::management_network(packetfence.gbst.net) to L2 
cache ! (pfconfig::manager::cache_resou


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