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I tried to migrate from Apache to Lighttpd on kubuntu 16.04. I used apt-get remove --purge apache2 then apt-get install lighttpd

After running systemctl start lighttpd I got the error message

 Job for lighttpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status ligttpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

The contents of journalctl -xe is: The result is failed.

Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: Reloading.
Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: apt-daily.timer: Adding 7h 10min 31.972833s random time.
Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: Started CUPS Scheduler.

-- Subject: Unit cups.service has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit cups.service has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.

Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: Started ACPI event daemon.
-- Subject: Unit acpid.service has finished start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit acpid.service has finished starting up.
-- 
-- The start-up result is done.

Mai 25 15:25:41 Heizschrank sudo[22105]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

The output of systemctl status is:

● lighttpd.service - Lighttpd Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/lighttpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mi 2016-05-25 15:25:36 CEST; 26min ago

Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: Starting Lighttpd Daemon...
Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank lighttpd[23079]: /usr/sbin/lighttpd: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/lighttpd: undefined symbol: FAMNoExists
Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=127
Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: Failed to start Lighttpd Daemon.
Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Mai 25 15:25:36 Heizschrank systemd[1]: lighttpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.</p>

I tried reinstalling lighttpd multiple times, but I get the same error. How could I now run lighttpd without causing errors?

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  • ow my eyes... please replace your html tags with normal formatting. Just add a blank line and then indent the journalctl output instead of this eyesore.
    – Peter
    May 25, 2016 at 13:46
  • The journalctl output seems to be completely irrelevant... try systemctl status instead. Or do the normal non-systemd way... run it in debug foreground mode. For example /usr/bin/lighttpd -D -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf and then you'll see the output of the program itself.
    – Peter
    May 25, 2016 at 13:49
  • Find the path of lighttpd rather than guessing... try "which lighttpd" to see if it's in PATH, or use dpkg -L lighttpd | grep bin or grep through the .service file or init script.
    – Peter
    May 25, 2016 at 14:03
  • btw. also in the added output, you can see the path is /usr/sbin/lighttpd which ought to be in root's PATH
    – Peter
    May 25, 2016 at 14:09

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Okay, I see in the new output there that this is a known bug. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lighttpd/+bug/1453463

The text I looked for was:

undefined symbol: FAMNoExists

And the suggested workaround there is:

sudo apt-get install gamin
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  • Had the same issue on Ubuntu 15.10 as well, and this worked. Thanks!
    – Priidu Neemre
    Dec 4, 2016 at 2:27

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