# Nexus service was not starting after upgrading to OSS 3.75.1-01 from OSS 3.71.0-06

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**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/nexus-service-was-not-starting-after-upgrading-to-oss-3-75-1-01-from-oss-3-71-0-06/14945 "2025-05-15T14:45:16Z")\
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Currently i was on Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS 3.71.0-06 , H2 DB and Java 17(openjdk-17.0.15+6-linux-x64). Can someone help me to understand what’s wrong here?  
Same problem identified when upgrading from OSS 3.71.0-06 to OSS 3.72.0-04 or 3.77.2-02.

Process followed :

1. stopped the nexus service
2. downloaded and extracted the OSS 3.75.1-01 on the existing nexus location where it has directories for OSS 3.71.0-06.
3. granted permissions to nexus user after extracting files.
4. started nexus service.

Here the nexus service was not starting/running.

# status command “systemctl status nexus” shows the below.

× nexus.service - Nexus Repository Manager  
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/nexus.service; enabled; preset: disabled)  
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2025-05-13 10:03:36 GMT; 1min 11s ago  
Duration: 5ms  
Process: 120296 ExecStart=/scratch/tools/nexus/nexus/bin/nexus start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)  
Main PID: 120612 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)  
CPU: 397ms

May 13 10:03:36 devservices systemd[1]: Starting Nexus Repository Manager…  
May 13 10:03:36 devservices nexus[120296]: Starting nexus  
May 13 10:03:36 devservices systemd[1]: Started Nexus Repository Manager.  
May 13 10:03:36 devservices systemd[1]: nexus.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE  
May 13 10:03:36 devservices systemd[1]: nexus.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

# and “journalctl -xeu nexus.service” shows the below.

May 13 10:03:36 devservices systemd[1]: Starting Nexus Repository Manager…  
Subject: A start job for unit nexus.service has begun execution  
Defined-By: systemd  
Support: [https://support.oracle.com](https://support.oracle.com)

```
  A start job for unit nexus.service has begun execution.
  
  The job identifier is 43200.

```

May 13 10:03:36 devservices nexus[120296]: Starting nexus  
May 13 10:03:36 devservices systemd[1]: Started Nexus Repository Manager.  
Subject: A start job for unit nexus.service has finished successfully  
Defined-By: systemd  
Support: [https://support.oracle.com](https://support.oracle.com)

```
  A start job for unit nexus.service has finished successfully.
  
  The job identifier is 43200.

```

May 13 10:03:36 devservices systemd[1]: nexus.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE  
Subject: Unit process exited  
Defined-By: systemd  
Support: [https://support.oracle.com](https://support.oracle.com)

```
  An ExecStart= process belonging to unit nexus.service has exited.
  
  The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.

```

May 13 10:03:36 devservices systemd[1]: nexus.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.  
Subject: Unit failed  
Defined-By: systemd  
Support: [https://support.oracle.com](https://support.oracle.com)

```
  The unit nexus.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.

```

# my nexus service file content

[Unit]  
Description=Nexus Repository Manager  
After=network.target

[Service]  
Type=forking  
User=nexus  
Group=nexus  
Environment=INSTALL4J\_JAVA\_HOME=/scratch/tools/openjdk-17.0.15+6-linux-x64  
ExecStart=/scratch/tools/nexus/nexus/bin/nexus start  
ExecStop=/scratch/tools/nexus/nexus/bin/nexus stop  
Restart=on-abort  
LimitNOFILE=65536

[Install]  
WantedBy=multi-user.target