# Node doesn't start: Error: System service failed **URL:** https://community.umbrel.com/t/node-doesnt-start-error-system-service-failed/14747 **Category:** Support and Troubleshooting **Created:** [December 27, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/node-doesnt-start-error-system-service-failed/14747 "2023-12-27T15:28:35Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![smolgrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/smolgrrr/32/2825_2.png) [@smolgrrr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/smolgrrr) #### Post date: [December 28, 2023, 10:40am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/node-doesnt-start-error-system-service-failed/14747/2 "2023-12-28T10:40:17Z")
What are you running UmbrelOS on? And I assume you have seen troubleshooting guide for this? > [@Resolving “Error: System service failed”](https://community.umbrel.com/t/resolving-error-system-service-failed/12939): > > As a disclaimer please always make sure you have secured your 24 word seed phrase before making any drastic system changes, primarily if you skip the step to reflash your MicroSD card (where you don’t lose any data) and instead skip to reformatting your storage drive then you would lose all your data (all data is stored on the storage drive and will result in a clean install) This error is the result of several issues usually occurring on Raspberry Pi 4 devices and related to the MicroSD card a… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.umbrel.com/t/node-doesnt-start-error-system-service-failed/14747)._