Hi Keith,

Sorry for the delayed response, as I was on vacation. Your activate script
is the same as mine except for the obvious directory name differences.
Unfortunately I am out of ideas.

-Will

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Suderman Keith <suder...@cs.vassar.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> Thanks for the response, but I am still not having any luck.  The script
> you attached is almost identical to what I have with a few minor exceptions:
>
> 1. You include -ES parameters when invoking python.
> 2. You export PYTHON_EGG_CACHE
> 3. Your config is in universe_wsgi.ini (in, I assume,
> /home/galaxy/galaxy-dist) while mine is in config/galaxy.ini
> 4. You source the virtualenv from /home/galaxy/galaxy_env/bin/activate
> while mine is in /home/galaxy/galaxy_dist/.venv/bin/activate
>
> I have made the changes for #1 and #2, #3 shouldn't be an issue, which
> leaves #4 as the only possible remaining culprit.  I have attached my
> .venv/bin/activate in case you can spot any differences, but since this is
> generated automatically it shouldn't be the problem.  I am starting to
> think I might just have to live with my hack-around for now.
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Cheers,
> Keith
>
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 7:44 PM, Will Holtz <who...@lygos.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Keith,
>
> I use start-stop-daemon to launch python and I pass --chuid and --group to
> start-stop-daemon so that galaxy does not run as root. It is my
> understanding that start-stop-daemon creates the pid file as root before
> changing user, as my /var/run/galaxy.pid is owned by root:root. I have
> attached my /etc/init.d/galaxy script. This is from a Ubuntu 12.04 system.
>
> -Will
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Suderman Keith <suder...@cs.vassar.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Will,
>>
>> I tried that and it didn’t work for me.  Are you using start-stop-daemon
>> to launch python?  Or do you run “python scripts/paster.py serve” from
>> /etc/init.d/galaxy?
>>
>> If I use start-stop-daemon then python does not seem to be picking up the
>> .venv.  I suspect it has something to do with .venv/bin/activate being
>> sourced as root in one process and then python running as the galaxy user
>> in another process.
>>
>> If I run “python scripts/paster.py serve” in the /etc/init.d/galaxy
>> script then Galaxy is running as the root user and this is (will be) a
>> production server so that is not an option.
>>
>> If I run python as the galaxy user from the /etc/init.d/galaxy script
>> then I am back to the problem of python not being able to write to
>> /var/run/galaxy.pid
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> On Nov 3, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Will Holtz <who...@lygos.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Keith,
>>
>> I've dealt with similar situations by adding the sourcing of
>> .venv/bin/activate to the etc/init.d/galaxy script. Then none of the
>> pre-existing pid code needs to be changed.
>>
>> -Will
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Suderman Keith <suder...@cs.vassar.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The solution was rather simple, once I figured it out.
>>>
>>> The /etc/init.d/galaxy script was invoking scripts/paster.py script
>>> directly so .venv/bin/activate was not being sourced.  The solution was to
>>> modify /etc/init.d/galaxy to call a startup script that sourced
>>> .venv/bin/activate before starting Galaxy.  I can write my solution up in
>>> more detail, but now I am having some problems setting the pid file
>>> correctly.
>>>
>>> If I use the --make-pidfile and --pidfile options for start-stop-daemon
>>> in /etc/init.d/galaxy then /var/run/galaxy.pid contains the pid of the
>>> startup script and not the pid of the Galaxy instance.
>>>
>>> If I try to set the pid in the startup script Galaxy won't start as the
>>> script (now running as the Galaxy user) can't create/write the
>>> /var/run/galaxy.pid file.
>>>
>>> My hack-around has been to touch the pid file (in case it doesn't exist)
>>> and then chown it to the galaxy user in /etc/init.d/galaxy, but this
>>> doesn't strike me as the correct way to do this.  Do any sysadmin gurus
>>> have any better suggestions?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Keith
>>>
>>> > On Nov 1, 2015, at 9:31 PM, Keith Suderman <suder...@cs.vassar.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Greetings,
>>> >
>>> > I am trying to upgrade our Galaxy instance to the latest stable code
>>> from master and now our instance won't start using my /etc/init.d/galaxy
>>> script.  That is:
>>> >
>>> >> sudo service galaxy start
>>> >
>>> > no longer works. It says it does (i.e. prints "[OK]"), but Galaxy
>>> isn't running and nothing is written to the log. I am using the init.d
>>> script from simison [1], which is basically the same as the one posted to
>>> the Galaxy wiki [2], both of which are quite old.
>>> >
>>> > Galaxy does start with:
>>> >
>>> >> sudo su galaxy
>>> >> ./run.sh --daemon
>>> >
>>> > so I have left Galaxy running in a screen session for now, but that is
>>> less than ideal.
>>> >
>>> > I suspect something to do with the .venv as `./run.sh --skip-venv`
>>> also fails and I don't recall Galaxy being that finicky about a venv being
>>> active. Does anyone know how I can get the /etc/init.d/galaxy script (i.e.
>>> start-stop-daemon) to activate the venv for paster.py?
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > Keith
>>> >
>>> > 1. http://simison.com/brian/GalaxyAdmin_notes.html
>>> > 2.
>>> https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GCC2012/TrainingDay/WS5?highlight=%28init.d%29
>>> >
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