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Resolved Sooo I broke my server

Scared Donut

New Pleskian
Hey guys,

I dun goofed and broke my server - I can't access my Plesk panel after trying to install a VNC server.

I followed these instructions: How to Install and Configure VNC Server on Centos 8 / RHEL 8 after the reboot step I couldn't access the Plesk panel anymore.

I've also noticed that PHP FastCGI doesn't start either:


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● php-fpm.service - The PHP FastCGI Process Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/php-fpm.service.d
└─limit_nofile.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-01-12 06:42:44 UTC; 1min 10s ago
Process: 1400 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/php-fpm --nodaemonize (code=exited, status=78)
Main PID: 1400 (code=exited, status=78)

Jan 12 06:42:41 hungry-nash.51-75-88-85.plesk.page systemd[1]: Starting The PHP FastCGI Process Manager...
Jan 12 06:42:43 hungry-nash.51-75-88-85.plesk.page php-fpm[1400]: [12-Jan-2021 06:42:43] NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'php_intl' (tried: /usr/lib64/php/modules/php_intl (/usr/lib64/php/modules/php_intl: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib64/php/modules/php_intl.so (/usr/lib64>
Jan 12 06:42:43 hungry-nash.51-75-88-85.plesk.page php-fpm[1400]: [12-Jan-2021 06:42:43] ERROR: No pool defined. at least one pool section must be specified in config file
Jan 12 06:42:43 hungry-nash.51-75-88-85.plesk.page php-fpm[1400]: [12-Jan-2021 06:42:43] ERROR: failed to post process the configuration
Jan 12 06:42:43 hungry-nash.51-75-88-85.plesk.page php-fpm[1400]: [12-Jan-2021 06:42:43] ERROR: FPM initialization failed
Jan 12 06:42:44 hungry-nash.51-75-88-85.plesk.page systemd[1]: php-fpm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=78/CONFIG
Jan 12 06:42:44 hungry-nash.51-75-88-85.plesk.page systemd[1]: php-fpm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 12 06:42:44 hungry-nash.51-75-88-85.plesk.page systemd[1]: Failed to start The PHP FastCGI Process Manager.

I've tried this to resolve the above but it didn't appear to help: Plesk PHP-FPM service(s) fail to start during reboot on systemd servers: No pool defined

I am out of ideas and I'd appreciate all the help I can get. Thank you!
 
First of all, try to start psa service with

# service psa start

And check possible error messages in /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log and /var/log/sw-cp-server/sw-engine.log if Plesk not started successfully.
 
First of all, try to start psa service with

# service psa start

And check possible error messages in /var/log/sw-cp-server/error_log and /var/log/sw-cp-server/sw-engine.log if Plesk not started successfully.
Thank you for the quick reply. starting psa tells me that everything is already running.

error logs - no errors whatsoever after server restart.

sw-engine has this:
[12-Jan-2021 06:48:21] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 18852
[12-Jan-2021 06:48:21] NOTICE: ready to handle connections
[12-Jan-2021 06:48:21] NOTICE: systemd monitor interval set to 10000ms
[12-Jan-2021 06:53:39] NOTICE: Terminating ...
[12-Jan-2021 06:53:39] NOTICE: exiting, bye-bye!
[12-Jan-2021 06:54:55] NOTICE: fpm is running, pid 1406
[12-Jan-2021 06:54:55] NOTICE: ready to handle connections
[12-Jan-2021 06:54:55] NOTICE: systemd monitor interval set to 10000ms
[12-Jan-2021 07:05:23] NOTICE: Terminating ...
[12-Jan-2021 07:05:23] NOTICE: exiting, bye-bye!
 
What kind of error do you have when you try login to Plesk server as an admin user?
 
Have you tried to fix it with

# plesk repair installation

?
 
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