perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-api.service failed.

[alexdodson]

Hello,
After an update to 4.4.2 on a rhel7 host the perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-api service is failing to start. When looking at journald output I see the following error. Hostname changed to hostname.

Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: /usr/lib/perfsonar/psconfig-web-admin/shared/node_modules/busboy/lib/utils.js:465
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: } catch {}
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: ^
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at Module._compile (module.js:549:28)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:586:10)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at Module.load (module.js:494:32)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at tryModuleLoad (module.js:453:12)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at Function.Module._load (module.js:445:3)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at Module.require (module.js:504:17)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname node[38546]: at Object. (/usr/lib/perfsonar/psconfig-web-admin/shared/node_modules/busboy/lib/index.js:6:30)
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname systemd[1]: perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-api.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname systemd[1]: Unit perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-api.service entered failed state.
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname systemd[1]: perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-api.service failed.
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname systemd[1]: perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-api.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Feb 03 01:52:36 hostname systemd[1]: Stopped perfSONAR PWA API daemon.
-- Subject: Unit perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-api.service has finished shutting down

package versions if that helps for perfsonar and nodejs

libperfsonar-perl-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-shared-4.4.2-0.a1.0.el7.x86_64
perfsonar-psconfig-utils-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
perfsonar-common-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
libperfsonar-psconfig-perl-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
libperfsonar-sls-perl-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-publisher-4.4.2-0.a1.0.el7.x86_64
nagios-plugins-perfsonar-4.4.2-1.el7.x86_64
perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-ui-4.4.2-0.a1.0.el7.x86_64
libperfsonar-esmond-perl-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
perfsonar-graphs-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
perfsonar-psconfig-maddash-devel-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
perfsonar-psconfig-web-admin-auth-4.4.2-1.el7.x86_64
perfsonar-psconfig-maddash-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
perfsonar-traceroute-viewer-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
libperfsonar-pscheduler-perl-4.4.2-1.el7.noarch
nodejs-6.17.1-1.el7.x86_64

[grigutis]

Hi Alex,

Can you try upgrading nodejs to 14 and see if that resolves it?

[alexdodson]

Hello,

When a yum update attempted to update node we saw similar to the below so it is pinned at the moment.

Error: Package: mongodb-server-2.6.12-6.el7.x86_64 (@perfsonar)
Requires: libv8.so.3()(64bit)
Removing: 1:v8-3.14.5.10-25.el7.x86_64 (@epel)
libv8.so.3()(64bit)
Obsoleted By: 1:nodejs-libs-16.13.2-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
~libv8.so.9()(64bit)
Error: Package: mongodb-2.6.12-6.el7.x86_64 (@perfsonar)
Requires: libv8.so.3()(64bit)
Removing: 1:v8-3.14.5.10-25.el7.x86_64 (@epel)
libv8.so.3()(64bit)
Obsoleted By: 1:nodejs-libs-16.13.2-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
~libv8.so.9()(64bit)

[alexdodson]

Post update to 4.4.3-1 we still see the same issue on trying to start the service. Is there something that can be done with the mongo package to make it so we can update the nodejs stuff?

Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: /usr/lib/perfsonar/psconfig-web-admin/shared/node_modules/busboy/lib/utils.js:465
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: } catch {}
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: ^
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at Module._compile (module.js:549:28)
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:586:10)
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at Module.load (module.js:494:32)
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at tryModuleLoad (module.js:453:12)
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at Function.Module._load (module.js:445:3)
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at Module.require (module.js:504:17)
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
Feb 07 22:47:39 sa-prka-psctrl1 node[31839]: at Object. (/usr/lib/perfsonar/psconfig-web-admin/shared/node_modules/busboy/lib/index.js:3:30)

[grigutis]

I'm still looking into this, but I believe this was caused by Node.js being updated in the EPEL repo. It went from 6 to 16 a couple of weeks ago. Which is causing the libv8 conflict between the MongoDB and Node.js packages.

[alexdodson]

Hey, I got this working with the pointers off the mailling list. The only thing thats an issue with the updated mongo packages is the user and group it runs as changes from mongodb to mongod so on the first start of the server it cant write to the existing log file /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log as the ownership is still in the old user group format from mongodb 2.6. This stops the mongod service starting.

-rw-r--r--. 1 mongod mongod 1.5M Feb 16 22:54 mongod.log -- (changed by me to start the service)
-rw-r--r--. 1 mongodb mongodb 408K Feb 14 04:07 mongod.log.2022-02-14T04-07-28 -- old owner example.