Java Runtime Environment: openjdk version “17.0.14” - Zulu17.56+15-CA
openHAB version: 4.3.4
Because some things inside the running instance produces errors, I made a restart of the service.
After that, the instance does not comes up and I have many exceptions in the openhab.log. I’ve tried a cache-clean, but nothing helps and I dont found any hints on the net.
Status from the service:
● openhab.service - openHAB - empowering the smart home
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openhab.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2025-04-15 10:42:28 CEST; 15min ago
Docs: https://www.openhab.org/docs/
https://community.openhab.org
Main PID: 42545 (java)
Tasks: 37 (limit: 9439)
Memory: 188.6M (peak: 215.2M)
CPU: 12.296s
CGroup: /system.slice/openhab.service
└─42545 /usr/bin/java -XX:-UsePerfData -Dopenhab.home=/usr/share/openhab -Dopenhab.conf=/etc/openhab -Dopenhab.runtime=/usr/share/openhab/runtime -Dopenhab.userdata=/var/lib/openhab -Dopenhab.logdir=/var/log/openhab -Dfel>
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.FeaturesServiceImpl.installConfigs(FeaturesServiceImpl.java:1185)
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:961)
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.Deployer.handlePrerequisites(Deployer.java:1121)
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.Deployer.deploy(Deployer.java:394)
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.FeaturesServiceImpl.doProvision(FeaturesServiceImpl.java:1069)
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at org.apache.karaf.features.internal.service.FeaturesServiceImpl.lambda$doProvisionInThread$13(FeaturesServiceImpl.java:1004)
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
Apr 15 10:42:34 OpenHABServer karaf[42545]: at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:840)
Failed to install artifact: /var/lib/openhab/etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg
java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: " ���" under radix 16
maybe your file system is corrupt (and it’s org.apache.karaf.features.cfg which is defect)?
This is, how the file should look like:
################################################################################
#
# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
# the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
#
################################################################################
#
# Comma separated list of features repositories to register by default
#
featuresRepositories = \
mvn:org.openhab.distro/distro/4.3.3/xml/features, \
mvn:org.openhab.distro/openhab-addons/4.3.3/xml/features, \
mvn:org.apache.karaf.features/framework/4.4.6/xml/features, \
mvn:org.apache.karaf.features/standard/4.4.6/xml/features, \
mvn:org.apache.karaf.features/specs/4.4.6/xml/features
#
# Comma separated list of features to install at startup
#
featuresBoot = \
instance/4.4.6, \
package/4.4.6, \
log/4.4.6, \
ssh/4.4.6, \
framework/4.4.6, \
system/4.4.6, \
eventadmin/4.4.6, \
feature/4.4.6, \
shell/4.4.6, \
service/4.4.6, \
jaas/4.4.6, \
openhab-runtime-base, \
openhab-runtime-ui, \
deployer/4.4.6, \
diagnostic/4.4.6, \
bundle/4.4.6, \
config/4.4.6, \
kar/4.4.6
#
# Resource repositories (OBR) that the features resolver can use
# to resolve requirements/capabilities
#
# The format of the resourceRepositories is
# resourceRepositories=[xml:url|json:url],...
# for Instance:
#
#resourceRepositories=xml:http://host/path/to/index.xml
# or
#resourceRepositories=json:http://host/path/to/index.json
#
#
# Defines if the boot features are started in asynchronous mode (in a dedicated thread)
#
featuresBootAsynchronous=false
#
# Service requirements enforcement
#
# By default, the feature resolver checks the service requirements/capabilities of
# bundles for new features (xml schema >= 1.3.0) in order to automatically installs
# the required bundles.
# The following flag can have those values:
# - disable: service requirements are completely ignored
# - default: service requirements are ignored for old features
# - enforce: service requirements are always verified
#
#serviceRequirements=default
#
# Store cfg file for config element in feature
#
configCfgStore=false
#
# Define if the feature service automatically refresh bundles
#
autoRefresh=true
#
# Configuration of features processing mechanism (overrides, blacklisting, modification of features)
# XML file defines instructions related to features processing
# versions.properties may declare properties to resolve placeholders in XML file
# both files are relative to ${karaf.etc}
#
#featureProcessing=org.apache.karaf.features.xml
#featureProcessingVersions=versions.properties
I guess, you also already did a complete restart?
Do you have any special things in question of your network? (e.g. a special firewall, ad-blocker…)
Sometimes I had difficulties with IPv6, which is preferred when available. As a consequence, I then had to reboot my OPNSense router (but it’s been a while since).
I have special things in my network. PiHole and also pfSense. Of course I checked the logs of both and found nothing. That would have surprised me too, because nothing had changed in the last weeks. And if I say “nothing in the last weeks”, I means nothing in pihole, nothing in the firewall and nothing on my OH server too. The one and only thing was a restart of the OH service.
Because I’m a professional software engineer (but not Java), so in my opinion there is mistake in the code or in a not cached config file. It is totally illogical, that after a service restart such behavior occurs.
In the last minutes I’ve tried a reinstall of OH and the addons, but the problem still exist.
Is there an OH developer out there, who can explain me, at which point the problem is?
