Porter cannot start services, thinks they are already running

[manavo]

I'm having an issue where the services aren't running, Porter thinks they aren't running, but then can't start them because it thinks they are running.

manavo@MacBook-Pro ~ % porter status

 Porter must be running to use this command. Do you want to start Porter? (yes/no) [yes]:
 > yes


In SupervisordRepository.php line 120:
                                 
  Services are already running.  

Not sure if there are any other debug things that would be useful? In the ~/.porter directory this is what I see:

manavo@MacBook-Pro .porter % ls -la
total 56
drwx------   9 manavo  staff   288 12 Jun 14:32 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 76 manavo  staff  2432  6 Jul 16:07 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 manavo  staff    95 26 May 10:39 apps.json
-rw-r--r--   1 manavo  staff   213 26 May 10:33 file-watcher.js
drwx------   2 manavo  staff    64 28 Jun 11:51 logs
srwx------   1 manavo  staff     0 12 Jun 14:32 supervisor.sock
-rw-r--r--   1 manavo  staff  2695  6 Jul 16:08 supervisord.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 manavo  staff  8902 18 Jun 13:41 supervisord.log
-rw-r--r--   1 manavo  staff     6 12 Jun 14:32 supervisord.pid

Not sure if maybe a pid/sock file is somehow leftover, and it's confusing things thinking they are running?

Last note, this is using Porter v0.0.11

[manavo]

Dug into this a little bit, and it seems like that was the case, the .pid file was leftover.

So after running this, it's been able to start the services again:

manavo@MacBook-Pro ~ % mv .porter/supervisord.pid .porter/supervisord.pid.bak
manavo@MacBook-Pro ~ % porter start
Starting services: loading...Unlinking stale socket /Users/manavo/.porter/supervisor.sock
Starting services: ✔

Not sure what caused the .pid file to get left behind though 😕

[beNjiox]

Thanks @manavo - just ran into this issue as well, and your tip worked for me.

[Cipfahim]

Thank you @manavo it worked :) Any idea why this happened?

[manavo]

Not sure, I'm guessing something crashes and the file gets left behind? It hasn't happened to me again, but glad this worked for you!

[squatto]

Rather than having to manually delete the supervisord.pid file, you can instead run this command to have Porter delete it for you:

porter stop --force

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For reference...

The stop command calls SupervisordRepository->stopSupervisord() with the force option:

porter/app/Commands/StopCommand.php

Lines 31 to 33 in 5a76962

	$this->task('Stopping services', function () use ($repository) {
	return $repository->stopSupervisord($this->option('force'));
	});

SupervisordRepository->stopSupervisord() deletes the supervisord.pid file when the force option is provided:

porter/app/Repositories/SupervisordRepository.php

Lines 152 to 154 in 5a76962

	if($force) {
	Storage::delete('supervisord.pid');
	}

[manavo]

Well spotted @squatto! Definitely a better option!

[justRau]

Encountered the same issue when porter was running and did a system reboot.

[RobertCordes]

Just had the same issue. Thank @squatto for mentioning the command.