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Plesk Unavailable / Service Down

M

ManuelR

Guest
Hello All,

It would seem that when I attempt to access my Plesk admin page this is unavailable. After doing some cursory checks I discovered that the server was not listening for incoming requests on port 8443 (verified remotely via telnet).

I therefore assumed that the service was not running and therefore issued the following command via SSH under the root account:

/etc/init.d/psa start

This results in the following output:

Starting xinetd service... done
Starting named service... done
Starting mysqld service... done
Starting postgresql service... done
Starting psa-spamassassin service... done
Plesk: Starting Mail Server... already started
Starting Plesk... failed
Starting drwebd service... not installed

As a possibly related issue, today I experience a server outage for reasons yet unknown. As part of the investigation into this I used Plesk to reboot the server. This action completed successfully and was the last action I performed in Plesk. Since the reboot I can access all services other than plesk itself.

Having never encountered this issue before, and also being something of a newbie when it comes to administering a Linux based server, I have no idea where to go next? Is there are log file I can check for service start errors? Is the solution staring me in the face? Or maybe something else.

Thanks in advance

EDIT:
Something else that may or may not be relevant

After rebooting, and before attempting to access Plesk again I installed sysstat with yum in order to be able to use iostat. Other than that no other changes have been made to the server.

EDIT:
To cover all the bases I have asked this question elsewhere, the response I received was "I'm going to put my money on the partition containing /var being full.". So pursuing that the last entry in the /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log file is

2010-12-10 18:35:34: (log.c.75) server started
2010-12-10 18:35:34: (network.c.336) SSL: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)

If I attempt to start Plesk with the command I mentioned earlier 2 new entries, the same as the one above, are added to the error log. I have found some reference to this error log entry and these relate to an updated version of SSL breaking plesk, however I have not (to my knowledge) updated SSL (unless the install of sysstat did this in the background??)

Output from df -h is:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 9.2G 5.2G 3.7G 59% /
/dev/md5 9.4G 2.2G 7.2G 23% /usr
/dev/md6 446G 5.2G 440G 2% /var
none 2.0G 8.0K 2.0G 1% /tmp

So if I am reading that correctly there is loads of space available

EDIT

As the errors in the log seem to point to the issue that whose resolution is detailed here:

http://kb.odin.com/8338

I have followed the guidelines in that KB, with the following outputs

[root@s15421692 dumping]# wget -c http://kb.odin.com/Attachments/12669/Attachments/sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm
--2010-12-10 19:05:53-- http://kb.odin.com/Attachments/12669/Attachments/sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm
Resolving kb.odin.com... 64.131.90.47
Connecting to kb.odin.com|64.131.90.47|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 429868 (420K) [application/x-redhat-package-manager]
Saving to: `sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm'

100%[======================================>] 429,868 509K/s in 0.8s

2010-12-10 19:05:54 (509 KB/s) - `sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm' saved [429868/429868]

[root@s15421692 dumping]# rpm -Uhv sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libbz2.so.1 is needed by sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386
libcrypto.so.6 is needed by sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386
libpcre.so.0 is needed by sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386
libssl.so.6 is needed by sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386

[root@s15421692 dumping]# yum install sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* atomic: www6.atomicorp.com
addons | 951 B 00:00
atomic | 1.9 kB 00:00
atomic/primary_db | 412 kB 00:00
base | 2.1 kB 00:00
extras | 2.1 kB 00:00
updates | 1.9 kB 00:00
Setting up Install Process
Examining sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm: sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386
Marking sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm as an update to sw-cp-server-1.0-3.200811141432.centos5.x86_64
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package sw-cp-server.i386 0:1.0-6.201004011105.centos5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libbz2.so.1 for package: sw-cp-server
--> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.6 for package: sw-cp-server
--> Processing Dependency: libpcre.so.0 for package: sw-cp-server
--> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.6 for package: sw-cp-server
--> Running transaction check
---> Package bzip2-libs.i386 0:1.0.3-6.el5_5 set to be updated
---> Package bzip2-libs.x86_64 0:1.0.3-6.el5_5 set to be updated
---> Package openssl.i686 0:0.9.8e-12.el5_4.6 set to be updated
---> Package pcre.i386 0:6.6-2.el5_1.7 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Updating:
sw-cp-server i386 1.0-6.201004011105.centos5 /sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386
1.2 M
Installing for dependencies:
bzip2-libs i386 1.0.3-6.el5_5 updates 37 k
openssl i686 0.9.8e-12.el5_4.6 base 1.4 M
pcre i386 6.6-2.el5_1.7 base 112 k
Updating for dependencies:
bzip2-libs x86_64 1.0.3-6.el5_5 updates 35 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 3 Package(s)
Update 2 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total size: 2.8 M
Total download size: 1.6 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/4): bzip2-libs-1.0.3-6.el5_5.x86_64.rpm | 35 kB 00:00
(2/4): bzip2-libs-1.0.3-6.el5_5.i386.rpm | 37 kB 00:00
(3/4): pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.i386.rpm | 112 kB 00:00
(4/4): openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_4.6.i686.rpm | 1.4 MB 00:00
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 6.0 MB/s | 1.6 MB 00:00


Package sw-cp-server-1.0-6.201004011105.centos5.i386.rpm is not signed
[root@s15421692 dumping]# /etc/init.d/psa start
Starting xinetd service... done
Starting named service... done
Starting mysqld service... done
Starting postgresql service... done
Starting psa-spamassassin service... done
Plesk: Starting Mail Server... already started
Starting Plesk... failed
Starting drwebd service... not installed

However, as you can see the service start still fails.
 
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