Sometimes, if you restart Zimbra, you see zmconfigd is not starting or saying it’s failed. You may also see the zmconfigd service is not running in the Zimbra admin panel. There are couple of common reasons why zmconfigd fails to start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Disable IPv6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One reason of zmconfigd fails to start is IPv6, for some reason, it fails to route the IPv6 and fails to start. A quick solution to this problem is to disable ipv6 and restart zmconfigd. You may do this like the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you can check the zmconfigd status with the following, to know if it’s running or not:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If it returns an ID, it means the zmconfigd is running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Netcat is not installed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Another reason of the error could be because nc is not installed in your system. Zimbra zmconfigd has a dependency on netcat package. Netcat is available through nmap-ncat in centos systems. You may run the following to install netcat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes, if you restart Zimbra, you see zmconfigd is not starting or saying it’s failed. You may also see the zmconfigd service is not running in the Zimbra admin panel. There are couple of common reasons why zmconfigd fails to start. Disable IPv6 One reason of zmconfigd fails to start is IPv6, for some reason, … Continue reading “How to Fix zmconfigd failed in Zimbra – Starting zmconfigd…failed.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[295,337,144,180,12,13,211,246,331],"tags":[332,468],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}#Edit your sysctl.conf file\nnano \/etc\/sysctl.conf\n\n# paste the following inside the file\nnet.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1\nnet.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1\nnet.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1\n\n# Save the file, and update sysctl in realtime\nsysctl -p\n\n# now try to restart zmconfigd\nsu - zimbra\nzmconfigdctl restart<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
[root@mailapp ~]# cat \/opt\/zimbra\/log\/zmconfigd.pid\n19722<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
yum install nc\n# or \nyum install nmap-netcat<\/pre>\n\n\n\n