Why are some services not active although those are enabled?

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • Why are some services inactive even though they are enabled?
 ~]# systemctl is-enabled multipathd.service
enabled
 ~]# systemctl is-active multipathd.service
inactive
 ~]# 
 ~]# systemctl is-enabled nfs-convert.service 
enabled
 ~]# systemctl is-active nfs-convert.service 
inactive

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1

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