redis refuses to start

Question

I've installed redis according to this tutorial. Everything works fine until I run sudo service redis_6379 start at which point I get the error Failed to start redis_6379.service: Unit redis_6379.service failed to load: No such file or directory. When I check I see that redis is not running:

> sudo service redis_6379 status
● redis_6379.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

I'm not sure what this redis_6379.service file is, or how I can create it? any help?

EDIT: tried installing using sudo apt-get install redis-server and got the following errors:

adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/redis' does not belong to the user that you are currently creating.
insserv: script shlonsky: service nginx already provided!
insserv: script unicorn_my_app: service unicorn already provided!
insserv: warning: script 'vncserver' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: There is a loop between service unicorn and vncserver if stopped
insserv:  loop involving service vncserver at depth 2
insserv:  loop involving service unicorn at depth 1
insserv: Stopping vncserver depends on unicorn_faisal_lab and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing package redis-server (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (219-7ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 redis-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I created recall creating the scripts shlonsky and unicorn_my_app to start nginx and unicorn, but I didn't think they would affect further .service instillation. any idea what I need to do to allow .service files to install?

Answer 1

Try installing redis-server simply through apt-get: sudo apt-get install redis-server, after that simply start/stop/restart the server using sudo service redis-server start OR you should also be able to start the redis-server in the background manually using redis-server &.