Trouble after upgrading to 2.1 agent

This looks like a leftover service from 2.0. Could you please stop the service:

systemctl status check-mk-agent.socket

Then confirm it is stopped:

ss -tulpn | grep 6556 # should be empty

Then reinstall the agent package and check whether the cmk-agent-ctl does now claim 6556. If this does not help we’ll dig through the post install script tomorrow.