There is a pid file in /var/run/puppet-dashboard.pid, but this file isn't what's stopping the startup. Puppet Dashboard also stores PID information in /usr/share/puppet-dashboard/tmp/pids. You must remove /var/run/puppet-dashboard.pid and /usr/share/puppet-dashboard/tmp/pids/*. Then you'll be able to start it just fine. Modifying the CPU settings only enables additional workers, but doesn't actually unblock the first two that won't start.
The bug is that it actually doesn't check to make sure there are still processes running on those pids listed in the /usr/share/puppet-dashboard/tmp/pids/*.pid files. Erik On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:55:56 PM UTC-8, Dave Mankoff wrote: > > [On my dev server] For the past 3 days, my puppet master has shown all of > the hosts as unresponsive. However, when I log into one of the hosts and > run "puppet agent --test" everything seems to run without complaint. > Meanwhile the master shows an ever increasing number of pending tasks. > > When I try to restart the dashboard workers, I get the following: > > # /etc/init.d/pe-puppet-dashboard-workers restart > * Restarting PE Puppet Dashboard Workers > ERROR: there is already one or more instance(s) of the program running > ERROR: there is already one or more instance(s) of the program running > * PE Puppet Dashboard Worker (pid ) is not running > > [fail] > > Rebooting the computer does not seem to help. For that matter, I think > this problem started after a recent system update and reboot. It is running > Ubuntu 12.04. I can not seem to find anything meaningful in the logs, > though perhaps I am looking in the wrong places. Any advice? Things worked > fine just a few days ago, and I have not touched Puppet. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
