Answers: <p>It looks like that the official Consul documentation is more up to date than the link that was posted in the question.</p>
  
  <p>If one starts with the <a href="https://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Getting Started guide</a>, then one could start a consul agent in no time and the documentation also explains how to proceed.</p>
  
  <pre><code>user@localhost /tmp $ ./consul agent -dev
  ==&gt; Starting Consul agent...
  ==&gt; Consul agent running!
             Version: 'v1.0.6'
             Node ID: '777c5475-bc78-6e38-75a6-42038eef7cb8'
           Node name: 'localhost.localdomain'
          Datacenter: 'dc1' (Segment: '&lt;all&gt;')
              Server: true (Bootstrap: false)
         Client Addr: [127.0.0.1] (HTTP: 8500, HTTPS: -1, DNS: 8600)
        Cluster Addr: 127.0.0.1 (LAN: 8301, WAN: 8302)
             Encrypt: Gossip: false, TLS-Outgoing: false, TLS-Incoming: false
  
  ==&gt; Log data will now stream in as it occurs:
  
      2018/04/09 21:33:04 [DEBUG] Using random ID "777c5475-bc78-6e38-75a6-42038eef7cb8" as node ID
  </code></pre>
  
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Answers: thanks, it's working now, I have moved this to my /usr/bin folder and it's working fine, i don't know why the link I have added in question not working
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Body: <p>Trying to run consul on my system.</p>
  
  <p>Have followed link to download consul:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://sonnguyen.ws/install-consul-and-consul-template-in-ubuntu-14-04/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">consul and consul-template setup</a></p>
  
  <pre><code>consul agent -server -bootstrap-expect 1 \
      -data-dir /tmp/consul -node=agent-one \
      -bind=127.0.0.1:8500 \
      -client=0.0.0.0 \
      -config-dir /etc/consul.d \
      -ui-dir /opt/consul/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But getting an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>WARNING: BootstrapExpect Mode is specified as 1; this is the same as Bootstrap mode.
  ==&gt; WARNING: Bootstrap mode enabled! Do not enable unless necessary
  ==&gt; Starting Consul agent...
  ==&gt; Error starting agent: Failed to start Consul server: Failed to start lan serf: Failed to create memberlist: Failed to parse advertise address!
  </code></pre>
  
Tags: <consul>
Title: consul throwing an error
UserDisplayName: Ravat Tailor
ThreadText: # consul throwing an error
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-04-09)
  
  Trying to run consul on my system.
  
  Have followed link to download consul:
  
  [consul and consul-template setup](https://sonnguyen.ws/install-consul-and-consul-template-in-ubuntu-14-04/)
  
  ```
  consul agent -server -bootstrap-expect 1 \
      -data-dir /tmp/consul -node=agent-one \
      -bind=127.0.0.1:8500 \
      -client=0.0.0.0 \
      -config-dir /etc/consul.d \
      -ui-dir /opt/consul/
  
  ```
  
  But getting an error:
  
  ```
  WARNING: BootstrapExpect Mode is specified as 1; this is the same as Bootstrap mode.
  ==> WARNING: Bootstrap mode enabled! Do not enable unless necessary
  ==> Starting Consul agent...
  ==> Error starting agent: Failed to start Consul server: Failed to start lan serf: Failed to create memberlist: Failed to parse advertise address!
  
  ```
  
  **Tags:** consul
  
  
  ---
  
  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-04-09. Score: 3 | Accepted answer
  
  It looks like that the official Consul documentation is more up to date than the link that was posted in the question.
  
  If one starts with the [Getting Started guide](https://www.consul.io/intro/getting-started/install.html), then one could start a consul agent in no time and the documentation also explains how to proceed.
  
  ```
  user@localhost /tmp $ ./consul agent -dev
  ==> Starting Consul agent...
  ==> Consul agent running!
             Version: 'v1.0.6'
             Node ID: '777c5475-bc78-6e38-75a6-42038eef7cb8'
           Node name: 'localhost.localdomain'
          Datacenter: 'dc1' (Segment: '<all>')
              Server: true (Bootstrap: false)
         Client Addr: [127.0.0.1] (HTTP: 8500, HTTPS: -1, DNS: 8600)
        Cluster Addr: 127.0.0.1 (LAN: 8301, WAN: 8302)
             Encrypt: Gossip: false, TLS-Outgoing: false, TLS-Incoming: false
  
  ==> Log data will now stream in as it occurs:
  
      2018/04/09 21:33:04 [DEBUG] Using random ID "777c5475-bc78-6e38-75a6-42038eef7cb8" as node ID
  
  ```
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: thanks, it's working now, I have moved this to my /usr/bin folder and it's working fine, i don't know why the link I have added in question not working  
  
  ---
  
  