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3 Replies Last post: Jul 5, 2008 10:04 AM by Rij Hazard

Mk_eq

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Unable to restart OpenFire Service

Hi since i have OpenFire installed on a OpenSuse10.3 Vmware i cant restart the server service.

Each time i try to do this i get an error message and i cant restart the server. My only solution till now was to reboot the os.

Hope someone knows whats my problem here.

The error message is this:

Shutting down openfire: /etc/init.d/openfire: line 134: kill: (3565) - no matching process found

After that i cant restart the server, i have to reboot to start server again.

Rij Hazard

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Jul 5, 2008 12:49 AM

in response to: Mk_eq

Re: Unable to restart OpenFire Service

I've had a problem with this too.

Turns out, if you did the setup wrong (especially if you did not have JRE on the board first), the PID of openfire will keep changing.

When you attempt to killall openfire or kill -9 pid* it will not work due to the fact that the PID is changing too fast.

The ONLY cure for this (as I've discovered) is to reboot and restart the service.

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Jul 5, 2008 1:42 AM

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Re: Unable to restart OpenFire Service

Hi,

you can use "ps -ef" to get a process list and then look for the Openfire PID. `kill Openfire-PID` will likely shutdown Openfire.

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Jul 5, 2008 10:04 AM

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Re: Unable to restart OpenFire Service

That's the problem the PID keeps changing.

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