SPS service fails to start

Article Id: 7177

Status: Published

Updated On: 14-02-2018 08:13

Legacy Id: TEC1093399

Products:

CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder) , AXIOMATICS POLICY SERVER , CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder) , CA Single Sign-On , CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction:

The SPS service does not start and the following log entries are recorded:

[Wed May 10 16:16:03.513227 2017] [jk:warn] [pid 3458:tid 4151666432] No JkShmFile defined in httpd.conf. Using default /opt/CA/secure-proxy/httpd/logs/jk-runtime-status

[Wed May 10 16:16:03.513974 2017] [mpm_worker:notice] [pid 3458:tid 4151666432] AH00292: Apache/2.4.12 (Unix) mod_jk/1.2.40 configured -- resuming normal operations

[Wed May 10 16:16:03.513988 2017] [core:notice] [pid 3458:tid 4151666432] AH00094: Command line: '/opt/CA/secure-proxy/httpd/bin/httpd -d /opt/CA/secure-proxy/httpd'

[Wed May 10 16:16:03.514004 2017] [mpm_worker:warn] [pid 3458:tid 4151666432] AH00291: long lost child came home! (pid 4306)

[Wed May 10 16:16:03.514014 2017] [mpm_worker:warn] [pid 3458:tid 4151666432] AH00291: long lost child came home! (pid 4307)

[Wed May 10 16:19:56.030438 2017] [mpm_worker:notice] [pid 3458:tid 4151666432] AH00295: caught SIGTERM, shutting down

Cause:

The java / proxy-engine part was not shutdown correctly.

Environment:

OS: Linux Red Hat 7.0 Environment: Development

Resolution:

To address this issue you need to delete the proxy-engine/tmp/sps.pid file and the process then started up correctly.

If the java / proxy-engine part is not shutdown correctly the file can be left behind. kill -9 for example does not give the process time to delete the pid file.

Additional Information:

Later versions of SPS should not encounter this problem as there are process checks in place.