Puppet master fails to start

Question

I have configured the puppet master and puppet agent in two docker containers and it was working fine.Now I cannot start the puppet master.

 

root@pmaster:/# service puppetmaster start

* Starting puppet master [fail]

root@pmaster:/# sudo /etc/init.d/puppetmaster start

* Starting puppet master [fail]

root@pmaster:/# service puppetmaster status

* master is not running