Ubuntu Startup Script - Not Working

[ishanrakitha]

I'm using ubuntu server 12.10. i have genarated the start up script and executed the given command, but i have to manually execute "pm2 restart all" to get my process online. I can see my process in pm2 after system start up. it show as online. but it's not.

[Unitech]

Which nodejs version do you use ? pm2 version ?
Have you already generated an init script with older pm2 version ?

[ishanrakitha]

My node version is - v0.10.24

just now i removed my startup script using "sudo update-rc.d -f pm2-init.sh remove" and reinstalled pm2 latest version. still the same.

[Unitech]

Can you do something like pm2 dump; pm2 kill; pm2 resurrect and tell me if processes are up ?

[ishanrakitha]

yes all the processes are up.

[Unitech]

Have you managed to fix this issue ?

[ishanrakitha]

no, still I'm manually restarting pm2 after a system reboot. I think the issue is in my ubuntu installation. To be sure I ll test pm2 and my services in a fresh ubuntu server and see.

[pstadler]

I have the exact same problem on Ubuntu 12.04 with Node v0.10.25. It seems that the processes are not getting dumped, so there's nothing to resurrect.

[soyuka]

Had this issue too (debian 7),

Workaround :
I've edited the /etc/init.d/pm2.sh and edited to pm2 start path/to/script

It seems that the dumped result is lost after rebooting. Dump/kill/resurrect are working fine when executed.

[pstadler]

That's the obvious solution but this fancy dump / resurrect method should still be fixed.

[soyuka]

+1
Just tried again with dump/resurect in the init.d/pm2-init.sh and it's working (Debian 7).

The pm2 script has to be running when the shutdown takes place (or it won't be dumped). Only one restart script for pm2 should be provided.

[ishanrakitha]

if i have multiple processes i have set my path to "processes.json" right ? or is it possible to add mutiple services to "pm2-init.sh" ? as you mentioned earlier.

[soyuka]

It looked like this :
https://gist.github.com/soyuka/9080276

And take a look at the update-rc.d command if you're on ubutun/debian to make your own.

But the dump/resurrect method is working.

[pstadler]

I was able to fix the problem. It seems that I was in the wrong directory while running the command to setup the init script. Everything works fine after setting the correct path to the user's home directory in /etc/init.d/pm2-init.sh:

export HOME="/home/www"

I hope this helps.

[ishanrakitha]

In my server "export HOME="/root" was already set. temporarily I'm using "su - root -c "pm2 resurrect" in my "/etc/rc.local".

[soyuka]

So, did you figure a way to make it work?

[ishanrakitha]

No I'm not. Using rc.local to resurrect my process on startup.

[fschwiet]

If it helps, I think I have a repro of this issue that can be created easily in vagrant: https://github.com/fschwiet/helloVagrant/tree/pm2-issue42900019

1. install vagrant and virtualbox
2. clone the repository
3. run "vagrant up nodejs"
4. Observe that http://192.168.33.11:8080/ returns a hello world message
5. run "vagrant reload nodejs"
6. Observe that http://192.168.33.11:8080/ fails (expected result: a hello world message)

Here is a snippet from the Vagrantfile:

config.vm.define "nodejs" do |nodejs|

    nodejs.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.11"

    nodejs.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
        chef.cookbooks_path = "cookbooks"
        chef.add_recipe "nodejs::install_from_binary"
        chef.add_recipe "nodejs::npm"

        chef.json = {
            :nodejs => {
                version: "0.10.6",
                checksum_linux_x64: "cc7ccfce24ae0ebb0c50661ef8d98b5db07fc1cd4a222c5d1ae232260d5834ca"
            }   
        }
    end

    nodejs.vm.provision "shell", inline: "sudo npm install pm2 -g"
    nodejs.vm.provision "shell", inline: "cd /vagrant/src/server; pm2 start hello-server.js"
    nodejs.vm.provision "shell", inline: "cd ~;  pm2 startup ubuntu;"
  end

[ishanrakitha]

Thank you :)

[fschwiet]

For reference to those running into this kind of issue, to keep pm2 running after reboot, I am using crontab:

(crontab -l ; echo '@reboot /sites/provision.sites.sh') | crontab

Where provision.sites.sh is something like:

if [ $(ps -e -o cmd | grep pm2 | grep hello-server | grep -v grep | wc -l | tr -s "\n") -eq 0 ]
then
    cd /sites/www; 
    /usr/local/bin/pm2 start hello-server.js --user vagrant
fi

[ishanrakitha]

noted and thanks :)

[kompot]

Seems like I've found issue why it does fail with vagrant.
/var/log/boot.log contains Process /home/vagrant/app/index.js not launched - (script missing).
vagrant/app folder is mounted via vagrant and of course it's mounted after booting.

Have not found a solution yet. But anyway it has nothing to do with pm2.

[jalvarezsamayoa]

@kompot a solution for the vagrant + pm2 start on reload is to add an upstart script that takes care of restarting you app after vagrant has mounted the source.

This is what I use:

# /etc/init/vagrant-mounted.conf
description "Start pm2 on vagrant mounted"
author      "Me"

start on vagrant-mounted

expect fork

setgid vagrant
setuid vagrant

script
 export HOME=/home/vagrant
 export PATH=/usr/local/node/node-default/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin
 cd /home/vagrant
 pm2 start app.js
end script

[ishanrakitha]

Thank you. :)

[ipsips]

how would start an app with pm2 after vagrant-mount on centos 7 (uses systemd)?

[eexit]

Hello,

I'm having the same issue:

• NodeJS v0.10.33
• NPM 1.3.6
• Centos 7

chkconfig --list | grep $(runlevel | awk '{ print $2}'):on

Note: This output shows SysV services only and does not include native
      systemd services. SysV configuration data might be overridden by native
      systemd configuration.

      If you want to list systemd services use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.
      To see services enabled on particular target use
      'systemctl list-dependencies [target]'.

iprdump         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
iprinit         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
iprupdate       0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
network         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
pm2-init.sh     0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

The pm2 dump; pm2 kill; pm2 resurrect commands work wells... I don't get it.
Any idea?

Thanks!

[agusputra]

On Ubuntu, I followed @soyuka advice. Edit /etc/init.d/pm2-init.sh , and change PM2_HOME="/root/.pm2" to PM2_HOME="/path/to/.pm2"