asked on 9/5/2018

Unifi Controller on Ubuntu 16

Installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and trying to install Unifi Controller for our switches.

I get the following error. Still new to linux side. Any thoughts?

Linux Installation * ubiquity Ubuntu

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Leigh Kalbli

9/10/2018

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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Here is journalctl -p err -b. For some reason it wont let me see logs. Im logged in as the only admin.

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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when running sudo journalctl -p err -b it lookgs like the output is nearly the same.

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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I will have to look deeper into your last comment. Since I am unable to get to the path because of the permissions, I dont know the name of the log files that would be present there.

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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Prabhin MP

9/5/2018

can you remove existing package and try to install in same manner which is explained in the following link
https://jcutrer.com/howto/networking/ubnt/install-unifi-controller-on-ubuntu-linux

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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I would like to stay clear of installing the older version. Thanks .

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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Martyn,
I prefer to diagnose the problem. Since the decision was made to run the Unifi Controller on Ubuntu, and i will be the one that has to support it, uninstalling and reinstalling does no good to me. I typed the above command. After that nothing is displayed. Did i miss a step.

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/220066768-UniFi-How-to-Install-Update-via-APT-on-Debian-or-Ubuntu is what i followed. Ironically, i install the Unifi Camera Server on Ubuntu 16.04 TLS with no issue. I can, as you said try to uninstall or reinstall or even a new VM. We had already installed the Unifi Controller for switchers to a Server 2012 VM but decided to migrate it to Ubuntu. So, this is not mission or time critical.

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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Yes it was installed.

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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Yes the VM is running on Dell R630 Power Eddge servers on vCenter 6.7 I looked in /etc and see no folder for unifi or no standalone file.

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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Separate note, i am going to create a second VM as well.

Leigh Kalbli

9/5/2018

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After running /usr/lib/unifi/bin/unifi.init start i get "starting ubiquiti contoller unifi cannot locate Java Home" As you reference java being a problem, i thing this may be a critical piece linking the issue. I will double check that java is correctly installed. Thank you for your help

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