Empty log in fresh installation

DaDen · January 6, 2021, 3:33pm

openhabian on raspberry 3b+

after “dispatching event to subscriber takes more than 5000ms” striked again, i decided make a whole new setup.
Everything works fine but i dont get any text through frontail.

i checked the path (/var/log/openhab/openhab.log /var/log/openhab/events.log) it is correct but i have 8 files for openhab.log and 8 files for events.log. And none of them is empty.
i upgraded everything from openhabian-config
i checked the frontail.services and everything seems to be okay

Felix_Schneider · January 6, 2021, 9:43pm

So a tail -f /var/log/openhab/openhab.log shows incoming events?
Does a reboot or a sudo service frontail restart help?

This is supposed to be like that. Logrotate is responsible for this

DaDen · January 6, 2021, 10:16pm

Hey Felix, thanks for your answer.
yes, there were events coming into openhab.log. and i rebooted the whole system several times.
Now i decided to do a third trie and installed everything again. new sd-card and new raspberry. now i get on startup:

login as: openhabian
openhabian@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’s password:
Linux openHABianDevice 5.4.79-v7+ #1373 SMP Mon Nov 23 13:22:33 GMT 2020 armv7l

The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.

mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 205: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 206: : No such file or directory
rm: missing operand
Try ‘rm --help’ for more information.
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 341: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 342: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 343: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 344: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 347: : No such file or directory
rm: missing operand
Try ‘rm --help’ for more information.
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 375: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 376: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 377: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 378: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 379: : No such file or directory
rm: missing operand
Try ‘rm --help’ for more information.
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 387: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 388: : No such file or directory
rm: missing operand
Try ‘rm --help’ for more information.
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 395: cannot create temp file for here-document: Re ad-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 407: cannot create temp file for here-document: Re ad-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 408: cannot create temp file for here-document: Re ad-only file system
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 413: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 414: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 415: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 416: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 417: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 418: : No such file or directory
rm: missing operand
Try ‘rm --help’ for more information.
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 425: cannot create temp file for here-document: Re ad-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 427: cannot create temp file for here-document: Re ad-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 429: cannot create temp file for here-document: Re ad-only file system
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 434: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 435: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 436: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 437: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 438: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 439: : No such file or directory
rm: missing operand
Try ‘rm --help’ for more information.
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 446: cannot create temp file for here-document: Re ad-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 448: cannot create temp file for here-document: Re ad-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 450: cannot create temp file for here-document: Re ad-only file system
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 454: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 455: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 456: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 457: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 458: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 459: : No such file or directory
rm: missing operand
Try ‘rm --help’ for more information.
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 498: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 499: : No such file or directory
rm: missing operand
Try ‘rm --help’ for more information.
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX’: Read-only file system
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 518: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 519: : No such file or directory
/usr/local/bin/FireMotD: line 520: : No such file or directory
rm: missing operand
Try ‘rm --help’ for more information.

i realy dont know what i am doing wrong…

Felix_Schneider · January 6, 2021, 10:24pm

This doesn’t look like a frontail problem. This doesn’t look right at all.

Did you use the openhabian installation tool?

DaDen · January 6, 2021, 11:09pm

I Downloaded the openhabian-pi-raspios32-v1.6.2b.img.xz from github and burned the image on the sd-card with balena etcher as recommended. then i inserted the sd card to the raspberry, opened the ip adress in my browser and waited.
Now i did this whole process aghain and i saw something went wrong in one line during the installation with samba and log. but before i was able to copy the line, the browser went to the “klick here after reboot” page.
Now the system starts but i dont get logs like before.

could it be a problem with my sd cards?

DaDen · January 7, 2021, 6:52am

The same issue is mentioned here

Wolfgang_S · January 7, 2021, 8:36am

This is being caused by NPM package socket.io in version 2.4.0.
It can be solved by downgrading socket.io to version 2.3.0:

login to openhab
become root: sudo bash
change direcotry to: cd /usr/lib/node_modules/frontail
downgrade the socket.io package: npm install socket.io@2.3.0
restart frontail: systemctl restart frontail

As long as this problem exist in socket.io 2.4.0 and frontail depends on 2.4.0 this will pop up again in case frontail is being reinstalled

thefechner · January 8, 2021, 4:06pm

@Wolfgang_S I still have the same issue.

As suggested, I have downported socket.io to 2.3.0, restarted the frontail service and rebooted the whole PI later.

I figured out, frontail in general seems to work. I added manually an entry in /var/log/openhab/openhab.log and the entry appeared immediately on the frontail-webpage host:9001.

It seems openHAB does not write any log anymore. I deleted all old log-files during testing. No new entries have reached so far. Similar what was mentioned already earlier here.
My openHAB status is similar to the one here

[16:50:31] thefechner@wendy:/usr/lib/node_modules/frontail$ sudo systemctl status openhab.service
● openhab.service - openHAB - empowering the smart home
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/openhab.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-01-08 16:01:16 CET; 59min ago
 Docs: https://www.openhab.org/docs/
       https://community.openhab.org
 Main PID: 762 (java)
Tasks: 176 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/openhab.service
       └─762 /usr/bin/java -XX:-UsePerfData -Dopenhab.home=/usr/share/openhab -Dopenhab.conf=/etc/openhab -Dopenhab.runtime=/usr/share/openhab/runtime -Dopenhab.userdata=/var/lib/openha

Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]:         at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.ConfigurationManager$ManagedServiceUpdate.provide(ConfigurationManager.java:1118)
Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]:         at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.ConfigurationManager$ManagedServiceUpdate.run(ConfigurationManager.java:1074)
Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]:         at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.UpdateThread.run0(UpdateThread.java:138)
Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]:         at org.apache.felix.cm.impl.UpdateThread.run(UpdateThread.java:105)
Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]:         at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]: org.ops4j.pax.logging.pax-logging-api [log4j2] ERROR : Null object returned for RollingFile in Appenders. Ignored FQCN: org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.Abstra
Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]: org.ops4j.pax.logging.pax-logging-api [log4j2] ERROR : Null object returned for RollingRandomAccessFile in Appenders. Ignored FQCN: org.apache.logging.log4
Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]: org.ops4j.pax.logging.pax-logging-api [log4j2] ERROR : Unable to locate appender "LOGFILE" for logger config "root" Ignored FQCN: org.apache.logging.log4j.
Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]: org.ops4j.pax.logging.pax-logging-api [log4j2] ERROR : Unable to locate appender "AUDIT" for logger config "org.apache.karaf.jaas.modules.audit" Ignored FQ
Jan 08 16:01:44 wendy karaf[762]: org.ops4j.pax.logging.pax-logging-api [log4j2] ERROR : Unable to locate appender "EVENT" for logger config "openhab.event" Ignored FQCN: org.apache.logging
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Has anyone an idea?

Or any idea what I can check?

Cheers
Steffen

EDIT:
In the meantime, I tried to logon to the karaf console and executed log:display. Then an huge bunch of message appeared. Most of them errors due to authorization on persistence files (*.rdd). Just after this, frontail web showed all messages, too. Now, for whatever reason it seems to work. At least the logging.

Now, I have to figure out how and why I have screwed authorization for persistence files. Maybe via git. Don’t know yet.

So, I think in my case, there have been multiple issues overlapping. But the issue here in the thread seems to be solved. Thank you!

Wolfgang_S · January 8, 2021, 6:19pm

When do run the command

ps -ef|grep java |grep /var/log

you should see a very long line of arguments.
Does it contain these two:

-Dopenhab.logdir=/var/log/openhab

and

-Dkaraf.log=/var/log/openhab

thefechner · January 8, 2021, 6:45pm

@Wolfgang_S Thank you very much for your quick help. Much appreciated.

Yes, both entries are there.

In the meantime, I tried to logon to the karaf console and executed log:display. Then an huge bunch of message appeared. Most of them errors due to authorization on persistence files (*.rdd). Just after this, frontail web showed all messages, too. Now, for whatever reason it seems to work. At least the logging.

Now, I have to figure out how and why I have screwed authorization for persistence files. Maybe via git. Don’t know yet.

So, I think in my case, there have been multiple issues overlapping. But the issue here in the thread seems to be solved. Thank you!