I had to restore my appliance from an Avamar backup and now the vmon.service is masked and I cannot unmask it. This is the error I get when trying to start vmware-vpxd service:
service-control --start vmware-vpxd
Perform start operation. vmon_profile=None, svc_names=['vmware-vpxd'], include_coreossvcs=False, include_leafossvcs=False
2017-06-20T20:37:49.518Z Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'set-environment', 'VMON_PROFILE=NONE']
2017-06-20T20:37:49.521Z Done running command
2017-06-20T20:37:49.524Z Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'daemon-reload']
2017-06-20T20:37:49.614Z Done running command
2017-06-20T20:37:49.614Z Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'set-property', u'vmware-vmon.service', 'MemoryAccounting=true', 'CPUAccounting=true', 'BlockIOAccounting=true']
2017-06-20T20:37:49.618Z Done running command
2017-06-20T20:37:49.621Z RC = 1
Stdout =
Stderr = Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked
2017-06-20T20:37:49.621Z {
"resolution": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"Stderr: Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked\n"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.command.errinvoke",
"localized": "An error occurred while invoking external command : 'Stderr: Failed to execute operation: Unit file is masked\n'",
"translatable": "An error occurred while invoking external command : '%(0)s'"
}
],
"componentKey": null,
"problemId": null
}
2017-06-20T20:37:49.621Z Running command: ['/usr/bin/systemctl', 'unset-environment', 'VMON_PROFILE']
2017-06-20T20:37:49.625Z Done running command
Error executing start on service vpxd. Details {
"resolution": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"vmware-vmon"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vmon'",
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"
}
],
"componentKey": null,
"problemId": null
}
Service-control failed. Error {
"resolution": null,
"detail": [
{
"args": [
"vmware-vmon"
],
"id": "install.ciscommon.service.failstart",
"localized": "An error occurred while starting service 'vmware-vmon'",
"translatable": "An error occurred while starting service '%(0)s'"
}
],
"componentKey": null,
"problemId": null
}
Is there anything else I can check or is this a complete rebuild? Logs? The postgres database will not come up on my appliance and I'd really like to avoid rebuilding. We do vmdk-level backups with Avamar. Thanks.