Hi Peter
In my case httpd.webservices was timing out before it finished its startup. On
timeout systemd would restart it, effectively putting it in an endless restart
loop.
If you notice the process and container id of httpd.webservices are changing
every 5 minutes or so this could be what is happening to you too.
If you are having the same problem, two workarounds solved it for me:
Option 1) The quick and dirty fix was to increase TimeoutStartSec in the
following systemd unit file to something quite high e.g 1800 seconds.
/lib/systemd/system/packetfence-httpd.webservices.service
then run 'systemctl daemon-reload'
Option 2) In the script /usr/local/pf/containers/pf-apache-wrapper there is a
command that can sometimes take significantly longer than 5 minutes to complete.
It can be speeded up significantly by rewriting it, i.e. change
usermod -o -u $PF_UID -g $PF_GID -d /usr/local/pf pf
to
usermod -o -u $PF_UID -g $PF_GID pf -d /dev/null pf
usermod -d /usr/local/pf pf
then rebuild the httpd.webservices container with the command:
/usr/local/pf/addons/dev-helpers/build-local-container.sh httpd.webservices
Finally, whichever option you chose, restart the service
/usr/local/pf/bin/pfcmd service httpd.webservices stop
/usr/local/pf/bin/pfcmd service httpd.webservices start
I have suggested option 2 as potential change for the next version on the pf
github.
It may also be worth checking if the changes got reversed if you do any pf
updates.
Kind regards
Ant
On 9 May 2025 at 08:34, Peter Jensen via PacketFence-users
packetfence-users@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
Hi
I get these errors with the httpd.webservices, which cannot start.
CLI Logs
#grep 'httpd.webservices' packetfence.log
2025-05-09T09:00:28.588336+02:00 nacsrv01
httpd.webservices-docker-wrapper[3955586]: Running with args --sig-proxy=true
--rm --name=httpd.webservices
--add-host=containers-gateway.internal:host-gateway -h nacsrv01 -v
/var/lib/mysql:/var/lib/mysql -v /etc/sudoers:/etc/sudoers -v
/etc/sudoers.d/:/etc/sudoers.d/ -v
/usr/local/fingerbank/conf:/usr/local/fingerbank/conf -v
/usr/local/fingerbank/db:/usr/local/fingerbank/db -v
/usr/local/pf/var/run:/usr/local/pf/var/run -ePF_UID=995 -e PF_GID=993
-eFINGERBANK_UID=999 -e FINGERBANK_GID=994 -eIS_A_CLASSIC_PF_CONTAINER=yes
-eTZ=Europe/Copenhagen -p 9090:9090
-v/usr/local/pf/var/conf/:/usr/local/pf/var/conf/
-v/usr/local/pf/conf/:/usr/local/pf/conf/
-v/usr/local/pf/raddb/certs:/usr/local/pf/raddb/certs --privileged -v
/run/systemd/system:/run/systemd/system -v
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
-v/usr/local/pf/html/captive-portal/profile-templates:/usr/local/pf/html/captive-portal/profile-templates
2025-05-09T09:00:28.622596+02:00 nacsrv01
httpd.webservices-docker-wrapper[3955600]: Error response from daemon: No such
container: httpd.webservices
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