[Thinlinc-technical] vsmserver process unexpectedly died

[Karl Mikaelsson]

Rob De Langhe <rob.de.langhe at twistfare.be> writes:
> hi all,
>
> I found that we could no longer login, because the "vsmserver" process on
> the master was gone.
> Checking its logs (/var/log/vsmserver.log), I found messages about its
> dying, which I cannot recognize from anything in the documentation :
>
> ...
> 2015-10-18 06:20:54 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:21:34 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:21:34 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:22:14 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:22:14 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:22:54 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:22:54 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:23:34 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:23:34 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:24:14 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:24:14 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:24:54 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:24:54 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:25:34 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:25:34 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:26:14 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:26:14 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:26:54 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:26:54 WARNING vsmserver.loadinfo: Connection refused (ECONNREFUSED) talking to VSM Agent 127.0.0.1:904 in request for loadinfo. Marking as down.
> 2015-10-18 06:26:55 DEBUG vsmserver: Scheduled load update of 127.0.0.1 at Sun Oct 18 06:27:35 2015
> 2015-10-18 06:27:00 INFO vsmserver: Got SIGTERM, signaling process to quit
>
> Any idea what might have caused this ?
>
> cheers and thanks all in advance for any feedbacks !
> Rob

Hi Rob,

That looks like a perfectly normal shutdown (i.e. service vsmserver
stop). Seeing as the vsmagent also stopped at approximately the same
time, I'm guessing that logrotate might have something to do with it
since that's the only thing I know that will restart vsmserver/vsmagent
in an standard install.

Are there any logs from cron or logrotate that can tell you why the
services aren't starting again?

regards,

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