you can see the exact outcome for the error you are getting in journalctl -xe command, just tell us what you are getting in that error and also show your configuration file /etc/default/couchpotato what values you have entered in it, i think you have some misconfiguration in that file.

Thanks here is the configuration in /etc/default/couchpotato

COPY THIS FILE TO /etc/default/couchpotato

Accepted variables with default values -if any- in parentheses:

username to run couchpotato under (couchpotato)

CP_USER=couchpotato

directory of CouchPotato.py (/opt/couchpotato)

CP_HOME=/opt/couchpotato

directory of couchpotato's db, cache and logs (/var/opt/couchpotato)

CP_DATA=/var/opt/couchpotato

full path of couchpotato.pid (/var/run/couchpotato/couchpotato.pid)

CP_PIDFILE=/var/run/couchpotato/couchpotato.pid

full path of the python binary (/usr/bin/python)

PYTHON_BIN=/usr/bin/python

extra cli options for couchpotato, see 'CouchPotato.py --help'

CP_OPTS=

extra options for start-stop-daemon, see 'man start-stop-daemon'

SSD_OPTS=

journalctl -xe does not work on my system I am using webmin which log file should i be looking at ? thanks for you help

PS i can start CP manually with /opt/couchpotato$ python CouchPotatoServer/CouchPotato.py