Restart works, reload fails

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You need to remove the init.d script and install the systemd unit file from contrib/systemd:

Failing to start with systemd and unexplained issues

Do not use the init.d file. You are using systemd, you have use the systemd unit file and wrapper, not the init.d script. rm /etc/init.d/haproxy cd contrib/systemd cp haproxy.service.in /lib/systemd/system/ systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable haproxy systemctl start haproxy systemctl status haproxy Note: Haproxy 1.8 and later needs to be compiled with USE_SYSTEMD=1 for the provided systemd unit file to work (needs systemd header files, that would be libsystemd-dev on Debian/Ubuntu or sys…