Sonarr systemd service not working Xubuntu

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**Sonarr version 2.0.0.4146
**Mono version 4.2.3.4
OS: xubuntu 16.04
((Debug logs)) (posted to hastebin or similar):
Here is the error

● sonarr.service - Sonarr Daemon
   Loaded: error (Reason: Invalid argument)
   Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2016-06-03 18:40:52 PDT; 43min ago
 Main PID: 8062 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

Jun 03 18:46:48 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:1] Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Jun 03 18:46:48 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:12] Invalid escape sequences in line, correcting: "-/
Jun 03 18:46:48 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:13] Missing '='.
Jun 03 18:49:59 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:13] Missing '='.
Jun 03 18:54:38 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:1] Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Jun 03 18:54:38 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:14] Missing '='.
Jun 03 19:02:37 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:1] Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Jun 03 19:02:37 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:18] Missing '='.
Jun 03 19:23:54 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:1] Assignment outside of section. Ignoring.
Jun 03 19:23:54 herrinNAS systemd[1]: [/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service:18] Missing '='.

sonarr.service file

cat > sonarr.service << EOF
[Unit]
Description=Sonarr Daemon
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
User=zh
Group=zh

Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/lib/mono /opt/NzbDrone/NzbDrone.exe> -nobrowser
TimeoutStopSec=20
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

I am trying to do the systemd auto boot on xubuntu 16.04 and I am getting multiple errors when I try to start or enable the service. I have copied the script from github and the only changed I made are the username, groupname and paths, all of which I know are correct. Here is what I am seeing when I try to enable. Any ideas or things to try and do? Any help would be appreciated. Would it be worth trying to do a fresh install and if so how do I go about clearning all of the config files in the system so they do not cause this issue during the next install? New to ubuntu so bare with me.

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The systemd unit should be

[Unit]
Description=Sonarr Daemon
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
User=zh
Group=zh

Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/lib/mono /opt/NzbDrone/NzbDrone.exe> -nobrowser
TimeoutStopSec=20
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

the cat > sonarr.service << EOF is to do a “here document” redirect to a file

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That took care of most of them but I am still getting a failed to start sonarr daemon. Here is what its telling me, I did daemon restart, enabled and disabled service and still getting an error. He is what it tells me

● sonarr.service - Sonarr Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2016-06-03 21:15:31 PDT; 3min 13s ago
  Process: 1081 ExecStart=/usr/lib/mono /opt/NzbDrone/NzbDrone.exe> -nobrowser (code=exited, status=203
 Main PID: 1081 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

Jun 03 21:15:30 herrinNAS systemd[1]: sonarr.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 03 21:15:30 herrinNAS systemd[1]: sonarr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 03 21:15:31 herrinNAS systemd[1]: sonarr.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jun 03 21:15:31 herrinNAS systemd[1]: Stopped Sonarr Daemon.
Jun 03 21:15:31 herrinNAS systemd[1]: sonarr.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jun 03 21:15:31 herrinNAS systemd[1]: Failed to start Sonarr Daemon.
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The wiki points to /usr/lib/mono, i have sonarr also running in ubuntu 16 in an lxc, the default mono binary is located in /usr/bin/mono if you used the mono from standard ubuntu repos. So change the execstart to /usr/bin/mono

Anyway check with which mono

5

Also after you have it working add this

StandardOutput=null

to the [service] section otherwise the syslog is gonna heavily spammed by sonarr logs.

6

That worked, I also found a > next to NzbDrone.exe which was also causing an issue. Thanks again!

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