raspiblitz: Bitcoind: Can't open PID from file
Fresh 1.6.2 install with LND recovered from backup. Bitcoind is active but it isn’t syncing, get Failed to parse PID from file and after service restart get Can't open PID from file as shown in the below status output:
● bitcoind.service - Bitcoin daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/bitcoind.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2020-12-23 12:20:38 GMT; 1min 32s ago
Process: 10999 ExecStartPre=/home/admin/config.scripts/blitz.systemd.sh log blockchain STARTED (code=exited, status=0/
Process: 11001 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/bitcoind -daemon -conf=/home/bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -pid=/home/bitcoin/
Main PID: 11002 (bitcoind)
Tasks: 18 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 199.2M
CGroup: /system.slice/bitcoind.service
└─11002 /usr/local/bin/bitcoind -daemon -conf=/home/bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf -pid=/home/bitcoin/.bitcoin
Dec 23 12:20:38 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Starting Bitcoin daemon...
Dec 23 12:20:38 raspberrypi systemd[1]: bitcoind.service: Can't open PID file /home/bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoind.pid (yet?)
Dec 23 12:20:38 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Bitcoin daemon.
$ ls -l /home/bitcoin/.bitcoin/
total 324
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 37 Dec 22 20:22 banlist.dat
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 854 Dec 22 23:56 bitcoin.conf
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 5 Dec 24 08:43 bitcoind.pid
drwx------ 1 bitcoin bitcoin 114010 Dec 21 16:33 blocks
drwx------ 1 bitcoin bitcoin 48572 Dec 24 08:43 chainstate
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 6877 Dec 24 08:49 debug.log
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 247985 Dec 23 15:30 fee_estimates.dat
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 17 Dec 23 15:30 mempool.dat
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 820 Dec 24 08:43 onion_private_key
-rw------- 1 bitcoin bitcoin 49552 Dec 23 15:30 peers.dat
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 4 years ago
- Comments: 25 (8 by maintainers)
Commits related to this issue
- #1836 and #1901 deleting blocking files on boot — committed to raspiblitz/raspiblitz by rootzoll 4 years ago
- #1836 and #1901 deleting blocking files on boot (#1902) — committed to raspiblitz/raspiblitz by rootzoll 4 years ago
- #1836 and #1901 deleting blocking files on boot (#1902) — committed to raspiblitz/raspiblitz by rootzoll 4 years ago
- #1901 remove PID file from service — committed to raspiblitz/raspiblitz by rootzoll 3 years ago
- #1901 changing path of PID file — committed to raspiblitz/raspiblitz by rootzoll 3 years ago
- Dev rootz to Dev nyx (#9) * BTCPay Server does not work on TESTNET (#1966) Just a mention referring to the issue so that newbies don't waist time with this and get disappointed. * Additional li... — committed to nyxnor/raspiblitz by nyxnor 3 years ago
- default to KIllMode=control-group in services https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/systemd.kill.5.html discussed in: https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/issues/1901 — committed to openoms/raspiblitz by openoms 3 years ago
- merging pre-1.7.1 (#2462) * fix copychain returns * typo in sync loop * stop services on inconsistent state * calling correct provisioning * apply bitcoin and lncli aliases in all scripts... — committed to raspiblitz/raspiblitz by rootzoll 3 years ago
@jodobear delete those files and do
restartshould be fine.We are using:
KillMode=processin the systemd service files which is not recommended and can cause leftover subrocesses likely causing this issue.https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/systemd.kill.5.html
Will remove all the
KillMode=entries so it defaults tocontrol-group.@openoms Thank you, you are great … Node is syncing… actually I had ordered a pre-synced RaspiBlitz … but what the heck
We are keeping this issue open because it has a pending PR #1930 … but moving it to next release because the fix would be to cloase to final realease of v1.6.3 to include.
@openoms do you see any downsides to remove the PID file from the system service? PR #1930 up for discussion
PR #1902 merged … this should delete the blocking file on boot. Will be part of v1.6.3 release - closing issue.