I have an Ubuntu 16 Server at my home, everything running smoothly even installed webmin to ease my work with some configurations but now I want to install a timemachine server on it and seems that I'm stuck on restarting the netatalk service.
It gives me the following error
Failed to start netatalk.service: Unit netatalk.service is masked.
The first thing I've tried was uninstall the netatalk package a reinstall it, then I tried disable the service and refresh the daemon it didn't work either.
The tutorial that I followed is this one
Use Ubuntu network share for Apple TimeMachine backups?
I want to avoid reseting my system and I no longer can figure out what to do.
Don't know if this helps, but here's the status output
pedro@HITMAN-SERVER:~$ sudo service netatalk status
● netatalk.service
Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
Active: inactive (dead)
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
==== EDIT ====
After George idea I was able to remove the symlink giving this status
pedro@HITMAN-SERVER:/lib/systemd/system$ sudo systemctl status netatalk
● netatalk.service
Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)
There should be a file called netatalk.service in the folder /lib/systemd/system that by removing said file the service should disappear from the system but I can not find the file and I believe that because the service is still being detected the apt-get install netatalk
does not configure the service correctly
I've placed a search on my system for the netatalk.service and removed (created backup) of said files and rebooted the computer... The service still appears on systemctl
sudo unmask netatalk
, then dosystemctl status netatalk
and see if it removes the link to/dev/null