Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2025-09-10 08:10:16) > As advised, I removed (backed up) /var/lib/ejabberd/archive_msg* and > /var/lib/ejabberd/pubsub* but ejabberd still fails to start within 5 minutes > (the default timeout) with the journalctl log from above. > > I don't mind loosing a bit more data (only the user database is really > important I think) and am looking for advice on how to get this service to > start after my upgrade to Trixie. If this is a different bug (I'm filing it > here because my archive_msg.DAT was large) then I'll open another issue. But > at > this point I would appreciate more advice from you. > > I now manually increased the timeout for ejabberd to start from 5 minutes to 2 > hours and maybe this will fix itself, given a few more CPU cycles to spare?
Ah, it is the same issue. Though in my case, removing archive_msg.DAT was not enough. Running "du -s /var/lib/ejabberd/* | sort -n" revealed that I had this: 1300288 /var/lib/ejabberd/upload And it seems that the uploaded files are also part of the database? Anyways, moving these out of the way now gives me a running server: https://compliance.conversations.im/server/mister-muffin.de/ > > 2) Convert to SQL before upgrading (strongly recommended). > > > > I could help with either (e.g., in the ejabberd support channel), but > > maybe that's out of scope here? > > Once everything runs I'd greatly appreciate advice on how to convert my > installation to sqlite. I have a very small instance with only a handful of > users and thus thought that using mnesia would be fine. Looking at the > database > sizes, maybe not the case. If you could point me to the guide on how to do the > conversion, I'd greatly appreciate it. I was not successful finding such > instruction in the web (with google and bing/duckduckgo). I'd still appreciate some pointers for this so that I do not run into the same issue the next time I upgrade. Thank you so much for maintaining ejabberd in Debian! I have been using (and upgrading) it for nearly a decade by now. :) Thanks! cheers, josch
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