I seem to run into a common problem - every time I'm troubleshooting something, I loose the web GUI.

 

When resolving some problems with my CP install I discovered this seems to happen because some other process is blocking the web server from responding. I guess this is a symptom of an integrated webserver in the control program.

 

What I'm wondering.. is how do I find out what process is blocking emhttp from responding. When I figured out my last problem was CP, i was able to look for the couchpotato_v2 start command and kill that and the GUI would come back, but now I just installed the new version of simple features.. and the gui locked up. So I had to uninstall everything and install the add-ons one at a time until the gui locked up again - turns out it was a problem connecting to my SMTP server.

 

Is there some system, or could something be added to the plugins to tell what process emhttp is waiting for? Right now as a last resort I'm doing this...

 

- ps aux and look for a emhttp event that is running

- go to /usr/local/emhttp/plugins and look at all of the plugin folders for scripts that run on that event

- look through each of the event scripts and look for the processes in ps

- kill them off until I get the GUI back

 

It seems tedious and slow and a pain.. is there any easier way?

 

Cheers,

 

whiteatom

I had a feeling this may not get much response... This may be a request for Tom.

I had a feeling this may not get much response... This may be a request for Tom.

The current "events" script waits for each event handler to complete. emhttp will not proceed if an event handler is running.    You can replace the event handler with one of your own that performs tasks in parallel, but until you write one, I think the current script logs the events in the syslog. Look there for the last event invoked.

 

Joe L.

I seem to be having the same problem.  The simplefeatures web gui keeps freezing and the only way I've been able to get it back is to restart the box. 

These are add-on issues and the add-on authors should be consulted.

Not always.... I have had problems with no simplefeatures installed as well.