# Error starting WowzaStreamingEngine

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/error-starting-wowzastreamingengine/46386>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Tags:** server-administration\
**Created:** [December 17, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-starting-wowzastreamingengine/46386 "2015-12-17T00:21:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Iftekhar\_Ivaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Iftekhar\_Ivaan](https://community.wowza.com/u/Iftekhar_Ivaan)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-starting-wowzastreamingengine/46386/1 "2015-12-17T00:21:54Z")

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I am getting error when I try to start the WowzaStreamingEngine by doing following.

service WowzaStreamingEngine start

if I do following for the status:

service WowzaStreamingEngine status

I get WowzaStreamingEngine stopped

But Streaming is working.

Why?

Following is the detail error message. I am running in CentOs 7

Starting WowzaStreamingEngine (via systemctl): Job for WowzaStreamingEngine.service failed. See ‘systemctl status WowzaStreamingEngine.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details.

[FAILED]

[root@cdn1 WowzaStreamingEngine]# systemctl status WowzaStreamingEngine.service

WowzaStreamingEngine.service - SYSV: Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Init Script

Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine)

Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Wed 2015-12-16 22:14:23 EST; 52s ago

Process: 1920 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine start (code=killed, signal=TERM)

Dec 16 22:09:23 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Init Script…

Dec 16 22:09:23 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) WowzaStreamingEngine[1920]: WowzaStreamingEngine: starting…

Dec 16 22:09:23 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) WowzaStreamingEngine[1920]: [91B blob data]

Dec 16 22:14:23 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) systemd[1]: WowzaStreamingEngine.service operation timed out. Terminating.

Dec 16 22:14:23 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Init Script.

Dec 16 22:14:23 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) systemd[1]: Unit WowzaStreamingEngine.service entered failed state.

[root@cdn1 WowzaStreamingEngine]# journalctl -xn

– Logs begin at Wed 2015-12-16 22:02:23 EST, end at Wed 2015-12-16 22:14:23 EST. –

Dec 16 22:09:52 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) sshd[2021]: pam\_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user iivaan by (uid=0)

Dec 16 22:10:01 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) su[2183]: (to root) iivaan on pts/1

Dec 16 22:10:01 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) su[2183]: pam\_systemd(su-l:session): Failed to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system\_bus\_socket: No such file or director

Dec 16 22:10:01 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) su[2183]: pam\_unix(su-l:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1000)

Dec 16 22:12:27 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: Wowza Streaming Engine Manager 4 Init Script…

– Subject: Unit WowzaStreamingEngineManager.service has begun with start-up

– Defined-By: systemd

– Support: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel](http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel)

–

– Unit WowzaStreamingEngineManager.service has begun starting up.

Dec 16 22:12:27 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) WowzaStreamingEngineManager[2749]: WowzaStreamingEngineManager: starting…

Dec 16 22:12:27 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) WowzaStreamingEngineManager[2749]: [98B blob data]

Dec 16 22:14:23 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) systemd[1]: WowzaStreamingEngine.service operation timed out. Terminating.

Dec 16 22:14:23 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: Wowza Streaming Engine 4 Init Script.

– Subject: Unit WowzaStreamingEngine.service has failed

– Defined-By: systemd

– Support: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel](http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel)

–

– Unit WowzaStreamingEngine.service has failed.

–

– The result is failed.

Dec 16 22:14:23 [cdn1.paxovision.com](http://cdn1.paxovision.com) systemd[1]: Unit WowzaStreamingEngine.service entered failed state.

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**Author:** ![sal\_jefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/error-starting-wowzastreamingengine/46386/2 "2015-12-21T16:38:18Z")

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Hello there and welcome to the Wowza support forum.

Please take a look at a similar answer [found here](http://community.wowza.com/t/-/45372). It might shine light on your issue.

If not, you might try a fresh Wowza install (Uninstall - re-install) and start over. If that does not work, please open a ticket with support by sending an email to [support2wowza.com](http://support2wowza.com). Include a zipped copy of your /conf and /logs folders, or at least the new error messages like you have provided here.

Thank you.

Salvadore