Cnode Relay stuck at "starting"

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Hope someone can help me out. I’ve been running relay nodes for almost a month now with no issues. However, today, I opened gliveview on one of my relay nodes and it was obvious something was wrong. The status initially ready “Synced 100%” but it wasn’t doing anything. I stopped the node and rebooted the server and now the node says active/running but in gliveview I’m just getting it stuck at Status “Starting” - it’s been over an hour and the same thing.

cnode.service - Cardano Node
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/cnode.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-03-01 23:38:39 UTC; 48min ago
Main PID: 63464 (cnode.sh)
Tasks: 14 (limit: 4683)
Memory: 3.2G
CGroup: /system.slice/cnode.service
├─63464 /bin/bash /opt/cardano/cnode/scripts/cnode.sh
└─63578 cardano-node run --topology /opt/cardano/cnode/files/topology.json --config /opt/cardano/cnode/files/config.json --database-path /o>

Mar 01 23:38:39 systemd[1]: Started Cardano Node.
Mar 01 23:38:40 cnode[63464]: WARN: A prior running Cardano node was not cleanly shutdown, socket file still exists. Cleaning up.
Mar 01 23:38:41 cnode[63578]: Listening on http://127.0.0.1:12798

Any ideas?

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Going on 5 hours now and still just stuck at “Starting” - anyone? Can I just delete the database and have it re-sync?

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It is generally a good idea to make a backup of your block data. I only keep these files/dirs …

immutable  ledger  protocolMagicId

all else is volatile and should go.

If you tar czf ... the above you will get a tgz of about 3.5GB

This is useful to do every now and then and allows you to spin up new nodes real quick.

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Yes, I could see the benefit in doing that, but any idea why the node is stuck like it is? Would prefer to sort that out in case it happens again…

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I run Docker images. If something goes wrong, I can restart a new node in a matter of seconds and don’t need to worry about what funky state my box has gotten into.

There is CIP about this here.

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Were you able to get the help you needed for your problem yet? I started experiencing this with one of my nodes recently.

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I ended up basically re-installing cardano node on that server and it fixed the issue right away. Maybe give it a try?

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I believe I saw something similar on the forum and someone used a killall to resolve the problem with the socket staying open.