Server failed to start on VPS ubuntu without logs or info

Hi,
After following the installation steps, when running the server using the given command: service traccar start
it errors out with traccar: unrecognized service
So I ran the server using this: sudo systemctl start traccar.service
However, when checking the status, I see that it failed.

root@e276553622e5:/# sudo systemctl status traccar.service
traccar.service - traccar
    Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/traccar.service, enabled)
    Active: failed (failed)

Also my logs folder is empty, so not sure where it's going wrong.
I checked the exit code with echo $? after starting the server and I get code 1.
Any suggestions?

Try to run it directly like this:

https://www.traccar.org/manual-installation/

And see what error you get.

sudo java -jar /opt/traccar/tracker-server.jar conf/traccar.xml
Loading class `com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'. This is deprecated. The new driver class is `com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver'. The driver is automatically registered via the SPI and manual loading of the driver class is generally unnecessary.
Running Changeset: changelog-4.0-clean::changelog-4.0-clean::author
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UPDATE SUMMARY
Run:                         42
Previously run:               0
Filtered out:                 0
-------------------------------
Total change sets:           42

Liquibase: Update has been successful.

But then it hangs. So I stopped it with ctrl-C and checked the log files and got the below:

2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: ChangeSet changelog-5.7::changelog-5.7::author ran successfully in 31ms
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: UPDATE SUMMARY
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: Run:                         42
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: Previously run:               0
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: Filtered out:                 0
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: -------------------------------
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: Total change sets:           42

2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: Update summary generated
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: Update command completed successfully.
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: Successfully released change log lock
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: Successfully released change log lock
2023-05-09 13:25:05  INFO: Command execution complete
2023-05-09 13:25:06  INFO: jetty-10.0.15; built: 2023-04-11T17:25:14.480Z; git: 68017dbd00236bb7e187330d7585a059610f661d; jvm 11.0.18+10-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu122.04
2023-05-09 13:25:06  INFO: Started o.t.w.@333a44f2{/,null,AVAILABLE}
2023-05-09 13:25:06  INFO: Session workerName=node0
2023-05-09 13:25:06  WARN: JAXBContext implementation could not be found. WADL feature is disabled.
2023-05-09 13:25:07  INFO: Started o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler@27b7204{/,null,AVAILABLE}
2023-05-09 13:25:07  INFO: Started ServerConnector@52b30054{HTTP/1.1, (http/1.1)}{0.0.0.0:8082}
2023-05-09 13:25:07  INFO: Started Server@652b3733{STARTING}[10.0.15,sto=0] @5288ms

Then tried to start the server or check the status and I got:

sudo systemctl start traccar.service
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down

Try running it using the Java provided with Traccar. I suspect you have installed a wrong architecture.

Using offline java? how do I do that?

/opt/traccar/jre/bin/java -jar tracker-server.jar conf/traccar.xml

I get this error, which probably related to my docker setup on Mac M1, even tho I'm running all of this in an Ubuntu image:

qemu-x86_64: Could not open '/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2': No such file or directory

But in order for me to fix this, I need to edit the Dockerfile of the program, but I couldn’t find it.