"Job for wgui.service failed"

[mindtheegab]

im trying to enable the systemd service to automatically restart wireguard but im getting this error when starting the service

root:/etc/systemd/system# systemctl enable wgui.{path,service}
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/wgui.path → /etc/systemd/system/wgui.path.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/wgui.path.requires/wgui.service → /etc/systemd/system/wgui.service.
root:/etc/systemd/system# systemctl start wgui.{path,service}
Job for wgui.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status wgui.service" and "journalctl -xeu wgui.service" for details.

Sep 13 09:53:33 systemd[1]: Starting wgui.service - Restart WireGuard...
░░ Subject: A start job for unit wgui.service has begun execution
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
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░░ A start job for unit wgui.service has begun execution.
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░░ The job identifier is 70811.
Sep 13 09:53:33 systemctl[35211]: Job for wg-quick@wg0.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
Sep 13 09:53:33  systemctl[35211]: See "systemctl status wg-quick@wg0.service" and "journalctl -xeu wg-quick@wg0.service" for details.
Sep 13 09:53:33 systemd[1]: wgui.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
░░ Subject: Unit process exited
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
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░░ An ExecStart= process belonging to unit wgui.service has exited.
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░░ The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
Sep 13 09:53:33 systemd[1]: wgui.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
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░░ The unit wgui.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 13 09:53:33 systemd[1]: Failed to start wgui.service - Restart WireGuard.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit wgui.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: http://www.ubuntu.com/support
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░░ A start job for unit wgui.service has finished with a failure.
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░░ The job identifier is 70811 and the job result is failed. ```

this is a brand new setup so i guess im missing something, thank you.

[mindtheegab]

my bad, it failed because the wireguard service was not started instead the tunnel was started manually with wg-quick up wg0.

starting the wireguard service its all its needed