[SOLVED] MQTT Embedded Crashed Will Not Restart

[Andrew_Rowe]

@DaveL

There is a file called “mqttembedded.bin” that was created in /var/lib/openhab2 that includes a lot of characters in addition to my .things file entries. Could this file be corrupt? What if I deleted the file and restarted openHAB?

David: What drew your attention to this file?
Recently I upgraded from OpenHAB version 2.4 stable to version 2.5M3. The upgrade went well except it broke my embedded mqtt broker. It was a different issue then you are having but might provide clues. Here is a post with the solution to my issue

[SOLVED] MQTT Broker Moquette offline after upgrade to 2.5M3

Thanks Bram I noticed the error was thrown by a lock on that file. I will give a try and report back. If this is the case, it probably should have an issue raised on git @bram_dirriwachter Thank you very much, that did the trick. Embedded mqtt broker came right back on line and mqtt rules working. I think I will attempt to find the right repo and create an issue, this is obviously a buggy Edit to add: There was another issue already dealing with this problem so my issue got closed. Here is…