How to troubleshoot a service that won't run in a jail?

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I’ve made a few jails now, installed a pkg program according to directions, and the service simply refuses to run. I’ve Googled high and low, but I can’t seem to find a way to troubleshoot this. service x start doesn’t produce any error, but the service doesn’t run. I’ve checked /var/log/auth.log, messages, anything that looks useful…no errors. So how do I troubleshoot why a service fails to start with no obvious error message? Specifically, this relates to sonarr and prowlarr recently but the issue is reoccurring. Thanks!

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Version of TrueNAS Core?

Version of FreeBSD the jail is based?

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Which application?
How did you install? pkg? ports?

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TrueNAS Core 13 U6.2
FreeBSD 13.3 p5

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Most recently I was looking to play around with Sonarr and Prowlarr, both jails doing the same thing after following all instructions (which is basically just installing the pkg- no further config mentioned in the tutorials).

pkg installs

I’ve actually had more success installing the much more complicated NextCloud with Apache and PHP etc. So I don’t think there’s anything wrong with my system or anything. My question more relates to nix and FreeBSD systems generally. When a service just won’t run and doesn’t generate errors, how do I troubleshoot? Service -v just results in "service is located in /usr/…"etc.)

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Update to 13.3 as soon as you can. 13.0 has issues trying to run 13.3 jails.

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I am on the 13.3-p5 release.

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@victor is referring to the version of Core, not of the FreeBSD jail.

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Good call; I didn’t even realize there was an update, the GUI told me there wasn’t. Services are now running at least!