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> Greetings - we moved the files. And we are getting side-tracked with the ldm > not being able to start. > > As user awips performing sudo edex stop the ldm never stopped and we found > somehow we launched the ldm yesterday as root. > > We could not stop the ldm with the normal ldmadmin stop -- even as root. > > We then as root killed the jobs manually since they were owned by root. > > Then as user awips we performed sudo edex start and the ldm would not start > > So as user awips we performed ldmadmin start and we got > Checking the product-queue... > 20220708T194731.301217Z uldbutil[29219] uldb.c:sm_setShmId:1069 > ERROR Permission denied > 20220708T194731.301300Z uldbutil[29219] uldb.c:uldb_delete:2038 > ERROR Couldn't delete existing shared-memory database by IPC key > 20220708T194731.301321Z uldbutil[29219] uldbutil.c:main:89 > ERROR Couldn't open the upstream LDM database > Checking pqact(1) configuration-file(s)... > /awips2/ldm/etc/pqact.conf: syntactically correct > Checking LDM configuration-file (/awips2/ldm/etc/ldmd.conf)... > Starting the LDM server... > > ...which was taking over 30 minutes to start -- and seemingly it hung so we > did a Control-C to stop the job > > And after and ldmadmin clean we did a sudo service edex_ldm start and got a > failed due to a timeout message > > So we are not able to get the ldm started... > > Presently and edex status shows nothing running and ps -ef | grep awips2 > shows nothing running in the background > > > Can you offer any recommendations to get us back on track? Hello, It might be faster to resolve if we can do a quick google meet where you can share your screen. But you may try: Again kill any LDM processes as root user Delete the ldmqueue (as root) ldmadmin delqueue Then as awips user do a clean and re-create the queue: ldmadmin clean ldmadmin mkqueue Then try to start ldm service edex_ldm start If that doesn't work (and if it hangs for more than a minute, go ahead and kill it), try "ldmadmin start" and see if it spits out an error And possibly look at the permissions in: /awips2/ldm /awips2/ldm/var/queues Thanks, Tiffany Meyer AWIPS Lead Software Engineer UCAR-Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: AND-239869 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.