# Mender Server start at boot

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-server-start-at-boot/1931>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** mender-server, container, boot\
**Created:** [May 16, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-server-start-at-boot/1931 "2020-05-16T13:12:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 9:08pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-server-start-at-boot/1931/2 "2020-05-16T21:08:35Z")

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I had a similar problem and in my case I found that docker was launching mender before all required systemd services were up. In the end i configured docker to not start mender containers on boot and added my own mender systemd service to ensure the required system services were up before launching mender-server. See below for systemd service I created. Obviously your setup will be different so change the necessary values to suit

[Unit]  
Description=Mender docker embedded image upgrade services  
Requires=docker.service  
After=docker.service systemd-user-sessions.service  
After=network-online.target network.target

[Service]  
Type=simple  
TimeoutStopSec=300  
User=mender  
WorkingDirectory=/home/mender/applications/IwMenderServer/production  
ExecStart=/home/mender/applications/IwMenderServer/production/run up

[Install]  
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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