OCI:PCP Service pmcd Fails to Start with Error "pmcd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'"

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Linux 8 and later

Symptoms

pmcd service fails to start with the following errors.

[root@alejanarol9 ~]# systemctl status pmcd pmlogger
× pmcd.service - Performance Metrics Collector Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pmcd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-04-23 22:54:06 GMT; 9s ago
       Docs: man:pmcd(1)
    Process: 13946 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/pcp/lib/pmcd start-systemd (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
   Main PID: 13946 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
        CPU: 876us

Apr 23 22:54:06 <HOSTNAME> systemd[1]: pmcd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Apr 23 22:54:06 <HOSTNAME> systemd[1]: Stopped Performance Metrics Collector Daemon.
Apr 23 22:54:06 <HOSTNAME> systemd[1]: pmcd.service: Start request repeated