<\/span><\/h3>\nOn analyzing the firewalld service we found a mask firewall set. Thus to resolve the error we unmask the firewalld service. We can enable the firewall service if it is not masked.<\/p>\n
To unmask the service we use the command<\/p>\n
systemctl unmask --now firewalld<\/code><\/pre>\nAfter executing the command we get the output as<\/p>\n
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Now we enable the firewalld service using the command<\/p>\n
systemctl enable firewalld<\/code><\/pre>\nFinally, we start the firewalld service using the command<\/p>\n
systemctl start firewalld<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/span>Mask link is broken<\/span><\/h3>\nOne of the common reasons for the error is when starting the service the masked link is broken. Thus we need to link the mask location once again to resolve the error.<\/p>\n
To unmask the service we use the command.<\/p>\n
systemctl unmask firewalld<\/code><\/pre>\nThus, if the service still fails to unmask we need to manually mask it first. The location will change based on the Linux flavors.<\/p>\n
ln -s \/etc\/systemd\/system\/firewalld.service \/dev\/null<\/code><\/pre>\nThus we unmask it. Then we start the service using the command<\/p>\n
systemctl start firewalld<\/code><\/pre>\nFinally, we find the status using<\/p>\n
firewall-cmd --state<\/code><\/p>\nFrom the above steps and commands we will know how to unmask firewalld and to restart the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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