[Koha] Help needed with zombie background_jobs processes

[Cindy Murdock Ames]

Yes, it's 22.11.04, package version.

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Cindy Murdock Ames
IT Services Director
Meadville Public Library | CCFLS
https://meadvillelibrary.org | https://ccfls.org




On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 2:59 PM Jonathan Druart <
jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org> wrote:

> Hi Cindy,
> Which exact version of Koha 22.11.xx? It should be the latest one.
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
> Le mar. 18 avr. 2023 à 19:13, Cindy Murdock Ames <cmurdock at ccfls.org> a
> écrit :
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A couple weekends ago I upgraded our Koha instance from 22.05 to 22.11,
> and
> > I'm having trouble with the background_jobs processes becoming zombies
> > after a very short amount of time, necessitating a reboot.  I suspect
> it's
> > a misconfiguration on my part, so if someone can shed some light I'd
> really
> > appreciate it!
> >
> > The first symptom was our MARC imports getting stuck at "import queued",
> > and after some digging (and thanks to the thread in this list with the
> > subject of "Background job / Staging MARC import stuck at 0%" I found I
> was
> > entirely missing the <message_broker> section in our config, so I added
> > this:
> >
> >  <message_broker>
> >    <hostname>localhost</hostname>
> >    <port>61613</port>
> >    <username>guest</username>
> >    <password>guest</password>
> >    <vhost></vhost>
> >  </message_broker>
> >
> > Which seemed to resolve it, but now I find that the background_jobs
> > processes are going zombie after processing only a few jobs.  Here's some
> > info from the rabbitmq log after restarting the server:
> >
> > =INFO REPORT==== 18-Apr-2023::12:23:46 ===
> > node           : rabbit at ccflskoha
> > home dir       : /var/lib/rabbitmq
> > config file(s) : /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.config (not found)
> > cookie hash    : ojvkUE6eUtku7kHlx3uiFg==
> > log            : /var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit at ccflskoha.log
> > sasl log       : /var/log/rabbitmq/rabbit at ccflskoha-sasl.log
> > database dir   : /var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit at ccflskoha
> >
> > Is it problematic that /etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq.config is missing?
> Anything
> > else I should be looking at?  We're running on Ubuntu SE 18.04 if that is
> > helpful.
> >
> > Thanks much!
> > Cindy
> >
> >
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> > Cindy Murdock Ames
> > IT Services Director
> > Meadville Public Library | CCFLS
> > https://meadvillelibrary.org | https://ccfls.org
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