Problem start acme-dns in installation about acme-dns

[LinuxCuba]

How to solve and fix this problem please, i need start the server.

[LinuxCuba]

Remove the file /var/lib/acme-dns/acme-dns.db, and start again, and work perfect. Thank.

[joohoi]

I’m sorry that tou are experiencing issues with acme-dns. We just had a similar issue, I wonder if this is the case with your configuration as well: #93 (comment)

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[LinuxCuba]

Yes, but driver is sqlite3 in debian system.

[joohoi]

Yeah, in the referenced issue, the actual problem was missing quotes around the configuration value. I believe this is rather config parser than db driver issue.

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[joohoi]

Please see #93 (comment) And #93 (comment)

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[joohoi]

Are you sure that the file /etc/acme-dns/config.cfg can be read by the user that acme-dns is started with? There is an outstanding PR that makes the error messages more elaborate, but the error you are seeing can also indicate the acme-dns wasn't able to read the configuration file.

[joohoi]

If you are building acme-dns from sources, you could try using branch err-handling-suppl which has changes that give some more information about issues in reading the configuration file.

[joohoi]

The current master as well as the new release v0.5 have vastly improved error messages. You could retry with either of those to figure out what's the underlying issue.

[LinuxCuba]

Yes i sure the file config is read by user acme-dns;
root@certbot:/# ls -l /etc/acme-dns total 6 -rw-r--r-- 1 acme-dns acme-dns 2167 Aug 9 17:37 config.cfg
root@certbot:/# ls -ld /etc/acme-dns drwxr-xr-x 2 acme-dns acme-dns 3 Aug 13 11:47 /etc/acme-dns

[joohoi]

If you are not able to figure out the underlying issue by trying to run the latest version (the Docker Hub container image is also updated), could you please pastebin the contents of your config.cfg. GitHub formatting often breaks because of the config syntax.

[LinuxCuba]

How to update, replaced all fille??

[joohoi]

I would delete the files you have installed now, and start the installation from the beginning.

[LinuxCuba]

ohh bad.

[LinuxCuba]

Update acme-dns this the new error in release v0.5
root@certbot:/# acme-dns INFO[0000] Using config file file=/etc/acme-dns/config.cfg ERRO[0000] Encountered an error while trying to read configuration file: Near line 45 (last key parsed 'api'): expected a top-level item to end with a newline, comment, or EOF, but got 't' instead

[joohoi]

Yeah, there seems to be a syntax error in your configuration file. Please double verify.

[LinuxCuba]

corrected in api the value of the tls change let`s encrypt by cert, but now I get a new unknown error.

INFO[0000] Using config file file=/etc/acme-dns/config.cfg ERRO[0000] Encountered an error while trying to read configuration file: toml: cannot load TOML value of type string into a Go boolean

[joohoi]

Check the default config.cfg against your edited configuration, and look for quote marks ( " ). Boolean values should not be quoted.

[LinuxCuba]

Yes already worked, it had a double quote in a Boolean value.
but this error when trying read the datebase.
ERRO[0000] Could not open database [file is not a database]
How to create the database and what is your structure?

[LinuxCuba]

Another problem, it works in the terminal with the acme-dns command executing directly, but it does not start the service with systemd.

[joohoi]

it works in the terminal with the acme-dns command executing directly, but it does not start the service with systemd

I don't have a direct answer to that one, as I don't know what the problem might be. Some things you could check:

• If the systemd service specifies a unprivileged user for running acme-dns, check that the configuration path is readable by that user, and the database is writable by the said user.
• acme-dns exists on a correct path
• If acme-dns is configured to serve on default (privileged) ports, make sure it has the privileges to do so.