[AWIPS #OTN-343872]: starting edex issues

> I recently attempted to install the edex server on my centos machine. I
> followed the instructions and entered the command $edex start and the
> command appeared to be running, but it did not display the list of
> running servers as they started; it basically just sat in some sort of
> loop, so I stopped the script.

What did you see on your shell in this "loop"?  I think maybe you have
the first 14.2.1-16 release from us, and the command "yum groupupdate
awips2-server" will update you the latest, including an early fix for the
"edex" program.

> I then went to view the edex server status and all processes were
> running except postgres.

Without postgres running, the other services will only report errors.
You should look in /awips2/data/pg_log/ for today's log file and see
what you can find at the bottom.


> I then went to stop the edex server processes and they all stopped, but
> when I went to restart them again via $edex start, none of them started.
> I checked $edex status multiple times and I couldn't seem to get any
> of them to start.

It would be good to start each service individually, and in order:

service edex_postgres start
edex (to report status)

service httpd-pypies start
service qpidd start
service edex_camel start

Generally if something is going wrong it will show up in 
/awips2/edex/log/edex-ingest-20140910.log (or whatever day it currently is).

Let me know more details and if you notice anything different after groupupdate 
and starting each service individually.

Michael James
Unidata Program Center
Boulder, CO

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OTN-343872
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open