background taskserver is not running error [Napp-it, OmniOS]

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Hi, again. More problems.

I'm experiencing this error:
"admin.pl 1069: background taskserver is not running or you have updated to a new version, please reboot first or your background tasks will not work"

I had this error yesterday as well, but I rebooted and it was fine. Logged in to check now, and I got the same error again.

Server has been running fine. ESXi with only one VM with OmniOS. The server works as an netatalk server, and has a Crashplan service running 24/7.

If anyone need anymore information, please let me know. Thanks!
 
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nle said:
Hi, again. More problems.

I'm experiencing this error:
"admin.pl 1069: background taskserver is not running or you have updated to a new version, please reboot first or your background tasks will not work"

I had this error yesterday as well, but I rebooted and it was fine. Logged in to check now, and I got the same error again.

Server has been running fine. ESXi with only one VM with OmniOS. The server works as an netatalk server, and has a Crashplan service running 24/7.

If anyone need anymore information, please let me know. Thanks!
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What you can do:
- restart napp-it (start console, get root permission with su ): /etc/init.d/napp-it restart

or reinstall napp-it per wget command (for a clean install rename /var/web-gui to /var/web-gui.old)
 
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Hi, thank you for the fast reply!

I restarted the service shortly after I posted my first post, and when I log back in again now –*the error is back (admin.pl 1069: background taskserver is not running or you have updated to a new version, please reboot first or your background tasks will not work).

I would like to know if it is possible to figure out the reason? Rather than just restarting the service. Is there some log files, etc, I should look through. I have tried watching the log files in "/var/web-gui/_Log", but I cant see anything out of the ordinary.
 
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nle said:
Hi, thank you for the fast reply!

I restarted the service shortly after I posted my first post, and when I log back in again now –*the error is back (admin.pl 1069: background taskserver is not running or you have updated to a new version, please reboot first or your background tasks will not work).

I would like to know if it is possible to figure out the reason? Rather than just restarting the service. Is there some log files, etc, I should look through. I have tried watching the log files in "/var/web-gui/_Log", but I cant see anything out of the ordinary.
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Taskserver is only a small shellscript with a loop that is waiting for tasks. You can start at console via
/usr/bin/bash /var/web-gui/data/napp-it/zfsos/_lib/scripts/taskserver.sh

to check for console messages.
 
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Ok, thanks. I'll do that, and leave it in a "screen" and hopefully see what happened. :)
 
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It stopped again, and this is the console output. It says something about not enough space, but it should be plenty.

Code: 
Filesystem                Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rpool/ROOT/napp-it-0.9c1   13G  2.2G   11G  18% /
Console output:
Code: 
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/nappit/*.htm': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/nappit/socket-basic-stat_minute.*': No such file or directory
Content-type: text/html

<html>
<head>
<title>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found</title>
</head>
<body>
<tt>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found</tt>
<br><hr><tt><b>Fragen Sie bei Bedarf Ihren Systembetreuer</b></tt>
lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found at /var/web-gui/data/wwwroot/cgi-bin/admin-lib.pl line 423.
Content-type: text/html

<html>
<head>
<title>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found</title>
</head>
<body>
<tt>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found</tt>
<br><hr><tt><b>Fragen Sie bei Bedarf Ihren Systembetreuer</b></tt>
lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found at /var/web-gui/data/wwwroot/cgi-bin/admin-lib.pl line 423.
[Sat Jul  6 01:51:14 2013] [debug] GET /echo (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36).
[Sat Jul  6 01:51:14 2013] [debug] Routing to a callback.
[Sat Jul  6 01:51:14 2013] [debug] 101 Switching Protocols (0.000565s, 1769.912/s).
Content-type: text/html

<html>
<head>
<title>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found</title>
</head>
<body>
<tt>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found</tt>
<br><hr><tt><b>Fragen Sie bei Bedarf Ihren Systembetreuer</b></tt>
lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found at /var/web-gui/data/wwwroot/cgi-bin/admin-lib.pl line 423.
kill: 23621: No such process
[Sat Jul  6 02:25:13 2013] [debug] GET /echo (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36).
[Sat Jul  6 02:25:13 2013] [debug] Routing to a callback.
[Sat Jul  6 02:25:13 2013] [debug] 101 Switching Protocols (0.000470s, 2127.660/s).
/var/web-gui/data/napp-it/zfsos/_lib/scripts/taskserver.sh: line 17: 23621 Killed                  nice /usr/bin/perl /var/web-gui/data/napp-it/zfsos/_lib/scripts/taskexec.pl $F
Content-type: text/html

<html>
<head>
<title>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found</title>
</head>
<body>
<tt>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found</tt>
<br><hr><tt><b>Fragen Sie bei Bedarf Ihren Systembetreuer</b></tt>
lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) file not found at /var/web-gui/data/wwwroot/cgi-bin/admin-lib.pl line 423.
Content-type: text/html

<html>
<head>
<title>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) readerror</title>
</head>
<body>
<tt>lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) readerror</tt>
<br><hr><tt><b>Fragen Sie bei Bedarf Ihren Systembetreuer</b></tt>
lib read_ahfile (taskexec.pl 36) readerror at /var/web-gui/data/wwwroot/cgi-bin/admin-lib.pl line 423.
/var/web-gui/data/napp-it/zfsos/_lib/scripts/taskserver.sh: fork: Not enough space
/var/web-gui/data/napp-it/zfsos/_lib/scripts/taskserver.sh: fork: Not enough space
jk@xxxxx:~$ [Sat Jul  6 13:03:12 2013] [debug] GET /echo (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.116 Safari/537.36).
[Sat Jul  6 13:03:12 2013] [debug] Routing to a callback.
[Sat Jul  6 13:03:12 2013] [debug] 101 Switching Protocols (0.000327s, 3058.104/s).
Last output from messages:
Code: 
Jul  6 09:32:58 hostname tmpfs: [ID 518458 kern.warning] WARNING: /etc/svc/volatile: File system full, swap space limit exceeded
As far as I can tell swap space looks fine:
Code: 
df -h | grep swap
swap                            1.7G  304K  1.7G   1% /etc/svc/volatile
swap                            1.7G   40K  1.7G   1% /tmp
swap                            1.7G   52K  1.7G   1% /var/run
Code: 
swapfile             dev    swaplo   blocks     free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 92,2         8  2097144  2048304
Any advice?

EDIT:
Crashed again. Same error "/var/web-gui/data/napp-it/zfsos/_lib/scripts/taskserver.sh: fork: Not enough space".

As far as I can tell, that means I have runned out of memory. OmniOS VM has 6gb dedicated, and no limit on how much memory of the total (24gb) it can use through ESXi.

Should I do something different?

EDIT2:
I've tried to increase swap space too see if that helps. We'll see. Any other advice is appreciated. :)
 
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nle

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Looks like increasing the swap space did the trick. No crashes since then. I'll report back if anything changes. :)
 
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