[SOLVED] Carbonio CE — Missing Consul Token at /etc/carbonio/mailbox-db/service-discover/token

✅ Problem

After following the guide described in: <a title="Carbonio - Single Server Installation" href=" removed link " target="_blank" rel="noopener">carbonio-single-server-install

When executing the command: 

PGPASSWORD=$DB_ADM_PWD carbonio-mailbox-db-bootstrap carbonio_adm 127.0.0.1

This is on a fresh installation of Carbonio Community Edition, the following error appears and the mailbox service fails to start:

Token file "/etc/carbonio/mailbox-db/service-discover/token" missing,
Unable to proceed without consul token. Exiting!

This can happen even on supported OSes if the bootstrap process didn't complete correctly—but it's more common on unsupported systems like CentOS 9 Stream.

🎯 Solution

You can manually retrieve and place the required Consul token with the following steps:

🔧 Step-by-step Fix:

1. Generate the bootstrap token:
   

   service-discover bootstrap-token

   This will print something like:

   ee1443d8-3f82-29ec-8920-2385ed7d43bd

2. Copy the token, and then create the file and paste the token in this path:

   vim /etc/carbonio/mailbox-db/service-discover/token

   I used vim, you can use nano or any other CLI editor.

After that repeat the command again, and all will go as expected.

📝 Notes

• ✔️ Tested successfully on CentOS 9 Stream — even though it's not officially supported, this fix gets it working.