Comment 0 for bug 1830615

glusterfs-server installation fails on Bionic

apt-get install glusterfs-server

...

Job for glustereventsd.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status glustereventsd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript glustereventsd, action "start" failed.
● glustereventsd.service - LSB: Gluster Events Server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/glustereventsd; generated)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2019-05-27 09:52:15 UTC; 15ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 17909 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/glustereventsd start (code=killed, signal=TERM)
    Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/glustereventsd.service
           ├─17927 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/glustereventsd -p /var/run/glustereventsd.pid
           └─17931 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/glustereventsd -p /var/run/glustereventsd.pid

May 27 09:47:14 vm1 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Gluster Events Server...
May 27 09:47:14 vm1 glustereventsd[17909]: * Starting glustereventsd service glustereventsd
dpkg: error processing package glusterfs-server (--configure):
 installed glusterfs-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.15) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 glusterfs-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

dpkg -l | grep gluster
ii glusterfs-client 3.13.2-1build1 amd64 clustered file-system (client package)
ii glusterfs-common 3.13.2-1build1 amd64 GlusterFS common libraries and translator modules
iF glusterfs-server 3.13.2-1build1 amd64 clustered file-system (server package)

systemctl status glustereventsd.service
● glustereventsd.service - LSB: Gluster Events Server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/glustereventsd; generated)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2019-05-27 09:52:15 UTC; 2min 9s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
   CGroup: /system.slice/glustereventsd.service
           ├─17927 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/glustereventsd -p /var/run/glustereventsd.pid
           └─17931 /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/glustereventsd -p /var/run/glustereventsd.pid

May 27 09:47:14 vm1 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Gluster Events Server...
May 27 09:47:14 vm1 glustereventsd[17909]: * Starting glustereventsd service glustereventsd
May 27 09:52:15 vm1 systemd[1]: glustereventsd.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
May 27 09:52:15 vm1 systemd[1]: glustereventsd.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
May 27 09:52:15 vm1 systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Gluster Events Server.

The issue is also reported here:
https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs-debian/issues/22