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[EP-tech] [ext] Re: [3.4.2] Wrong status of indexer on the admin site
Hi,
So there are three separate ways of starting/stopping the indexer:
1. Through the web interface
2. Through the command line using /usr/share/eprints/bin/indexer
3. Through systemd using "systemctl start epindexer"
I have found in the past that methods 1 and 3 can have issues with each
other but that if you have 3 setup and enabled (i.e. systemctl enable
epindexer) then what the browser says should correspond to what
systemctl status epindexer says.? However, stopping the indexer in the
web browser will kill the indexer process but systemctl will likely
start a new one up in its place.? This is where you can get in a bit of
a mess and sometimes have two indexers running at once (4 indexer
processes, 2 parents and 2 children) or an indexer running but the
status page on in your browser saying it is not.
I did update the epindexer systemd module to start the indexer using a
shell script that could to a bit of extra tidying:
-----------------------
[Unit]
Description=EPrints Indexer
After=crond.service
Requires=mariadb.service
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/usr/share/eprints/var/indexer.pid
TimeoutStartSec=0
User=eprints
ExecStart=/usr/share/eprints/site_lib/bin/epindexer_systemd_start
ExecStop=/usr/share/eprints/bin/indexer stop
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=60
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
-------------------------
#!/bin/bash
cd `dirname $0`
cd ../../
if [ -e var/indexer.pid ]; then
??????? pid=`ps aux | awk 'BEGIN{FS="[\t ]+"}{ print $11 }' | grep
"indexer" | head -n 1`
??????? if [ "$pid" != "" ]; then
??????????????? bin/indexer stop
??????????????? sleep 5
??????? fi
??????? rm -f var/indexer.pid var/indexer.tick
fi
bin/indexer start
---------------------------
This is by no means a perfect script but has helped reduce the amount of
issues I have had with the indexer dying or running multiple instances.?
Getting seamless integration between the systemd module and the web
interface is near impossible.? You would not want to integrate starting
and stopping using systemctl into EPrints, as it may not be applicable
in all operating systems.? On the other hand, reliably trying to get the
aspects of EPrints indexer management to recognise those of systemd and
vice-versa is a very difficult task.
Regards
David Newman
On 27/01/2021 10:46, systems via Eprints-tech wrote:
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> Hi David,
> I only see the button "start indexer".
> The page says that the indexer is stopped, but the indexer process is alive.
>
> ps axu | grep $(cat /usr/share/eprints/var/indexer.pid)
> eprints 6134 0.0 2.7 210776 50992 ? Ss 11:06 0:00
> indexer
>
> The indexer.tick exits and will contain:
>
> cat /usr/share/eprints/var/indexer.tick
> # This file is by the indexer to indicate
> # that the indexer is still is_running.
>
> When I stop the idexer via
> systemctl stop epindexer
>
> The pid and tick file is gone and no inder process is running now.
> And the log if it says:
> [Wed Jan 27 11:25:18 2021] 6134 *** Indexer sub-process stopped
> [Wed Jan 27 11:25:18 2021] 6134 ** Indexer process stopping
>
> It looks like, when the indexer is starte via the command line, then the
> gui don't detect it and vice versa.
>
> After starting it from the gui, the gui say the it will runs, but not
> the console.
>
> systemctl status epindexer
> ? epindexer.service - The eprints indexer
> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/epindexer.service; static;
> vendor preset: disabled)
> Active: inactive (dead)
>
>
>
> Am 27.01.21 um 10:42 schrieb David R Newman:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is an interesting issue. When you go to the main Admin menu page
>> under the System Tools tab what buttons are available for starting and
>> stopping the indexer? What drives whether the Admin status page stays
>> Running, Stopped, etc. is the presence of the file:
>>
>> /usr/share/eprints/var/indexer.pid
>>
>> and whether there is an indexer process running with the process ID
>> stored in this file. Also the presence of the file
>> /usr/share/eprints/var/indexer.tick may affect the status you see. At
>> best guess the indexer is running but under a different process ID to
>> that in indexer.pid. It should be noted that if your run something like:
>>
>> ps aux | grep indexer
>>
>> You would get two processes back (three if you include the "grep
>> indexer" process in the command above). The first is the parent process
>> and this should have the process ID that is in indexer.pid and the
>> second is a child process. The latter is vulnerable to dying if the
>> indexer task it is undertaking fails in certain ways. The parent
>> process should spawn a new child process if this happens.
>>
>> Normally what I would do to clear things up is stop the indexer from the
>> command line. Then if any indexer processes are still running use the
>> Unix kill command then kill these. Then finally make sure that the
>> /usr/share/eprints/var/indexer.pid and
>> /usr/share/eprints/var/indexer.tick files are no longer present and
>> delete if they are. Then I would go back to the web interface to check
>> the indexer's status (to ensure it is stopped) and hopefully then use
>> the Admin page's "Start Indexer" button to restart the indexer. This
>> should get things back in a consistent state and hopefully the=is
>> inconsistency will not re-occur.
>>
>> Hope this helps. Please let me know if this does not solve your problem.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> David Newman
>>
>> Subject: [3.4.2] Wrong status of indexer on the admin site
>> From: systems <systems at mdc-berlin.de>
>> Date: 27/01/2021, 07:28
>> To: <eprints-tech at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>
>> Hi list,
>> I try to get eprints working on CentOS8.
>> As far it looks working, but the on the admin status page, the indexer
>> is marked as stopped. But it runs and the task queue is empty.
>>
>> systemctl tells, that it is running and
>> sudo -u eprints /usr/share/eprints/bin/indexer status
>> also:
>> Indexer is running with PID 10960. Next index in 27 seconds
>>
>> How will the status page check the state of the indexer?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> for any hints.
>>
>>
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