[SOLVED] Openhab2 not starting after apt-get update = solved

[BGunnarB (B Gunnar Blockmar)]

I am experiencing almost the same problem:
Platform: Mini-PC Celeron amd-64 architecture, Ubuntu 18 and OH 2.3.0 Stable

After a cold restart the System binding would not deliver some CPU-information (load and temperature).

On advise from @H102 I reinstalled the binding but no progress. Then I cleaned the cache and tmp files using the commands openhab-cli stop, openhab-cli clean-cache, openhab-cli start.
Since I am running the PC headless, I did this over SSH.

So, OH started, everything OK but now I was stuck in Karaf. Logging out or closing the session also terminates OH .
I solved this by connecting a screen and keyboard locally to the PC but I am not able to start OH the usual way by systemctl. openhab-cli start does start OH and it is running with everything up as before.

Now OH is running fine since yesterday. I could disconnect the screen and kbd but when I log in via SSH and check the status, I get this info:

[10:33:23] openhab@ib9-oh2-2:~$ systemctl status openhab2.service
● openhab2.service - openHAB 2 - empowering the smart home
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openhab2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-11-27 10:33:34 CET; 4s ago
     Docs: https://www.openhab.org/docs/
           https://community.openhab.org
  Process: 23792 ExecStart=/usr/share/openhab2/runtime/bin/karaf $OPENHAB_STARTMODE (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
 Main PID: 23792 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

I am fairly experienced with OH, starting with 1.8 on a RPi but when it comes to Karaf, I am a noob.
What I have not done so far is reinstalling OH.

[Dim (Angelos)]

anything useful in openhab.log?

try the following:

sudo su //switch permanently to root (optional)
systemctl stop OH2  //stop the OH2 service
mv /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log.old  //keep a copy of the log
openhab-cli clean-cache  //clean cache
systemctl start OH2   //start OH2
systemctl status OH2  //check status
tail -f /var/log/openhab2/openhab.log //monitor log file

[BGunnarB (B Gunnar Blockmar)]

Thanks for your support!
That did the trick but I had to do it from the console on the PC itself. The OH2 instance was running there and I could not stop it from the SSH session.

Now everything is normal!

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@BGunnarB

That did the trick but I had to do it from the console on the PC itself. The OH2 instance was running there and I could not stop it from the SSH session.

Next time you can do the following from SSH:

1. ps -ef | grep java
2. Look for the line that has openhab in the first column, unless OH is running as a different user in which case look for the line that has java -Dopenhab.home= in it.

openhab 18183 18058 2 Nov23 pts/0 02:22:19 /usr/lib/java-8/bin/java -Dopenhab.home=/openhab -Dopenhab.conf=/openhab/conf -Dopenhab.runtime=/openhab/runtime -Dopenhab.userdata=/openhab/userdata -Dopenhab.logdir=/openhab/userdata/logs -Dfelix.cm.dir=/openhab/userdata/config -Djava.library.path=/openhab/userdata/tmp/lib -Djetty.host=0.0.0.0 -Djetty.http.compliance=RFC2616 -Dorg.ops4j.pax.web.listening.addresses=0.0.0.0 -Dorg.osgi.service.http.port=8080 -Dorg.osgi.service.http.port.secure=8443 -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseG1GC -Xbootclasspath/a:/openhab/userdata/jython/jython.jar -Dpython.home=/openhab/userdata/jython -Dpython.path=/openhab/userdata/lib/python -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/lib/java-8/jre/lib/endorsed:/usr/lib/java-8/lib/endorsed:/openhab/runtime/lib/endorsed -Djava.ext.dirs=/usr/lib/java-8/jre/lib/ext:/usr/lib/java-8/lib/ext:/openhab/runtime/lib/ext -Dkaraf.instances=/openhab/userdata/tmp/instances -Dkaraf.home=/openhab/runtime -Dkaraf.base=/openhab/userdata -Dkaraf.data=/openhab/userdata -Dkaraf.etc=/openhab/userdata/etc -Dkaraf.logs=/openhab/userdata/logs -Dkaraf.restart.jvm.supported=true -Djava.io.tmpdir=/openhab/userdata/tmp -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/openhab/userdata/etc/java.util.logging.properties -Dkaraf.startLocalConsole=true -Dkaraf.startRemoteShell=true -classpath /openhab/runtime/lib/boot/activation-1.1.1.jar:/openhab/runtime/lib/boot/jaxb-api-2.3.0.jar:/openhab/runtime/lib/boot/jaxb-core-2.2.11.jar:/openhab/runtime/lib/boot/jaxb-impl-2.2.11.jar:/openhab/runtime/lib/boot/org.apache.karaf.diagnostic.boot-4.2.1.jar:/openhab/runtime/lib/boot/org.apache.karaf.jaas.boot-4.2.1.jar:/openhab/runtime/lib/boot/org.apache.karaf.main-4.2.1.jar:/openhab/runtime/lib/boot/org.osgi.core-6.0.0.jar org.apache.karaf.main.Main

3. The second column will be the PID for the running OH. 18183 in the example above. You can nicely stop the program with the command sudo kill -HUP 18183 or immediately end the program without giving it a chance to shutdown with sudo kill -9 18183. Of course, replace the PID with your PID.

[mpol (Mike Polinowski)]

@Benjy

I would remove it ( rm ), check if you have another service file in /usr/lib/systemd/system/openhab2.service and then run the following commands:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable openhab2.service
sudo systemctl restart openhab2.service

Similar problem here - OpenHAB did not start after an apt update - those steps solved it form me. Currently waiting for the Paper UI to become available again.

EDIT: Yes everything back to normal

[lifeinharmony]

I followed the installation guide from here:

openHAB on Linux

This is how the services file looks:

[Unit]
Description=The openHAB 2 Home Automation Bus Solution
Documentation=http://docs.openhab.org
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=openhab
Group=openhab
WorkingDirectory=/opt/openhab2
#EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/openhab2
ExecStart=/opt/openhab2/start.sh server
ExecStop=/bin/kill -SIGINT $MAINPID
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

But shouldn’t it look like this?

[SOLVED] Openhab2 not starting after apt-get update = solved

Interesting, the usual way to start openHAB on the RPi is to use the following command: sudo systemctl start openhab2.service However, it looks as though the openhab2.service file is out of date. I’m not sure how this is possible though, because it gets updated with each apt upgrade… What does sudo systemctl status openhab2.service tell you? Does it contain the following line: Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/openhab2.service; ... If so, does the file loaded contain: [Unit] Descripti…

[Benjy (Ben Clark)]

You only need to follow those instructions if you’re installing openHAB 2 manually using a zip file. You should remove that file if you are using apt to manage the install, as this is done for you.

Otherwise, you are right in thinking that the service file should be updated. I’ve made a PR to change the documentation.