The solution is as follows:
stop both the identity and idp services:
`systemctl stop idp && systemctl stop identity`
Start the idp service:
`systemctl start idp`
and **then** start the identity service:
`systemctl start identity`
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Best of luck.
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.1.6/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.1.5/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.1.4/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.1.3.1/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.1.3/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.1.2/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.1.1/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.1.0/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.0.2/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/3.0.1/integration/saas/google/
https://gluu.org/docs/ce/2.4.4/integration/google/