Failed to start dgraph-alpha.service: Unit dgraph-alpha.service is not loaded properly: Invalid argument

Issues
1

Hello, I’m looking to setup dgraph in bare metal / GCP VM instance & encountered following exception.

Host Flavor

Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-1093-gcp x86_64)

Steps followed

curl https://get.dgraph.io -sSf | bash -s -- --systemd

Error snippet

Do you agree to the terms of the Dgraph Community License? [Y/n] Y

Latest release version is v21.03.1.

Downloading checksum file for v21.03.1 build.

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Download complete.

Comparing checksums for dgraph binaries

Downloading https://github.com/dgraph-io/dgraph/releases/download/v21.03.1/dgraph-linux-amd64.tar.gz

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**Download complete.**

Inflating binaries (password may be required).

**Dgraph binaries v21.03.1 have been installed successfully in /usr/local/bin.**

**Please visit https://dgraph.io/docs/get-started for further instructions on usage.**

Systemd installation was requested.

user not found - creating one...

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#### Creating dgraph-ui.service ...

#### Creating dgraph-alpha.service ...

#### Creating dgraph-zero.service ...

Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dgraph-alpha.service to /etc/systemd/system/dgraph-alpha.service.

Failed to start dgraph-alpha.service: Unit dgraph-alpha.service is not loaded properly: Invalid argument.

See system logs and 'systemctl status dgraph-alpha.service' for details.

**There was some problem while installing Dgraph. Please share the output of this script with us on http://discuss.dgraph.io so that we can resolve the issue for you.**
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Can you check the logs (journal) about that argument?

3

Hi , thanks for quick response. Could you provide some suggestion how/ where to check for the logs ?

Since I’m doing a one step install, it’s not intuitive as to where the logs would be generated .