./nodebb start not working

[Telokis]

Hello!

Whenever I try to run Nodebb using the nodebb control file, I get some weird behavior.
Doing ./nodebb start does start a daemon which instantly exits. (Tested both on my local windows and on my distant debian)
Since the beginning, I used node app but this prevents Nodebb from being able to restart through the admin panel.
Using ./nodebb dev works fine (maybe because no daemon is used?) and it even allows me to restart from the admin panel but this is not a proper solution for production.

I may need to specify that this is intended to be used with Docker so running it in background is not necessary. (Something equivalent to ./nodebb start running in foreground and allowing me to restart from the admin panel would still be fine)

[PitaJ]

@Telokis can you try ./nodebb slog and see if any errors occur? If ./nodebb dev works, ./nodebb start should, too, but obviously something fishy is going on.

[Telokis]

@PitaJ It doesn't show anything in particular but it works so I'll use it in place of start.
Thanks!

[sergej-saveljev]

Hello! I have this problem. NodeBB v.0.8.2 and I can not update for some important reasons.

At startup, a normal message is displayed, but nothing happens:

$ ./nodebb start

Starting NodeBB
  "./nodebb stop" to stop the NodeBB server
  "./nodebb log" to view server output
  "./nodebb restart" to restart NodeBB

In the dev mode:

$ ./nodebb log  

Type Ctrl-C to exit

And nothing more. NodeBB not work:

$ ./nodebb stop 
NodeBB is already stopped.

In the dev mode, everything seems to be fine.

[sergej-saveljev]

It started 10 days ago. At the same time, I did not change anything. Git did not record any changes.

[sergej-saveljev]

I could not figure it out. Apparently there was something serious. I just took the file from the test server. It remains only to return the pictures. Thanks!

[PitaJ]

@sergej-saveljev you did what? What were the steps you took while upgrading?

[sergej-saveljev]

scp -r ./forum [email protected]:www/mysite.ru/; ssh [email protected]; cd www/mysite.ru/forum; ./nodebb start

[sergej-saveljev]

I tried a lot of things. Even this did not help:

rm -r node_modules; npm install; ./nodebb start

[PitaJ]

Run ./nodebb dev and see if any errors occur in the log

[sergej-saveljev]

Now everything is fine, thank you!

[Alexander Shortt]

I'm having this exact same problem currently-- ./nodebb dev works fine, ./nodebb start does nothing and outputs nothing to the logs, and I've tried all the ./nodebb upgrade and ./nodebb build.