# Documentation update request for: Failed to start cassandra.service: Unit cassandra.service not found

**URL:** <https://travis-ci.community/t/documentation-update-request-for-failed-to-start-cassandra-service-unit-cassandra-service-not-found/9888>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [September 11, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/documentation-update-request-for-failed-to-start-cassandra-service-unit-cassandra-service-not-found/9888 "2020-09-11T11:20:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![MichaelS11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MichaelS11](https://travis-ci.community/u/MichaelS11)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/documentation-update-request-for-failed-to-start-cassandra-service-unit-cassandra-service-not-found/9888/1 "2020-09-11T11:20:19Z")

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Greetings,

Without dist: trusty in the .travis.yml config file, get the following:

sudo systemctl start cassandra  
Failed to start cassandra.service: Unit cassandra.service not found.

This is the same issue as this:

> [@All our tests failing: cannot connect to Cassandra](https://travis-ci.community/t/all-our-tests-failing-cannot-connect-to-cassandra/4644):
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> Repo: [GitHub.com/filodb/FiloDB](http://GitHub.com/filodb/FiloDB) Error: [info] Exception encountered when attempting to run a suite with class name: org.scalatest.DeferredAbortedSuite \*\*\* ABORTED \*\*\* 3795[info] com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.NoHostAvailableException: All host(s) tried for query failed (tried: localhost/127.0.0.1:9042 (com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.TransportException: [localhost/127.0.0.1:9042] Cannot connect)) 3796[info] at com.datastax.driver.core.ControlConnection.reconnectInternal(ControlCon…

But for this topic was wondering if the documentation could be update? Or is this going to be fixed in another way?

- Michael

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**Author:** ![rangerthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba8739/32.png) [@rangerthegood](https://travis-ci.community/u/rangerthegood)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/documentation-update-request-for-failed-to-start-cassandra-service-unit-cassandra-service-not-found/9888/2 "2020-10-30T03:07:34Z")

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Any update on this?

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**Author:** ![native-api](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/travis-ci.community/native-api/32/430_2.png) [@native-api](https://travis-ci.community/u/native-api)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/documentation-update-request-for-failed-to-start-cassandra-service-unit-cassandra-service-not-found/9888/3 "2020-10-30T03:42:36Z")

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This is already documented:

- [Setting up Databases and Services - Travis CI](https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/database-setup/)

- [The Trusty Build Environment - Travis CI](https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/trusty/#databases-and-services)

- [The Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) Build Environment - Travis CI](https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/reference/focal/#databases-and-services)