Error Message

• Error getting startup status:

• 0: error -

Issue

• From looking at the ServiceErrorLog.txt, this error you see: "Log validation check failed... " indicates that the crash was likely caused by your logs. Some possible causes for this are the following:

  • Log files are locked by another process, such as antivirus or backup software, for more than 30 minutes, causing Iguana to go into safe mode and shut down all the channels

  • Disk is out of space - check the log usage statistics <iguana_url>:<web_serv_port>/log_usage_statistics

  • Log index corruption, possibly from ungraceful service shutdowns or processes locking the logs

Solution

• Stopping the Iguana service

• Delete the log index and meta files found in your logs directory

  • if not able to delete index folder, it means another process has access to these files, you need to ask their network team to figure out what has access and prevent it.

  • Once these files are no longer in use by other processes, the files are able to be deleted.

• Restarting the service

This will give Iguana a fresh log index and meta files. 

Error Message

• In the ServiceErrorLog.txt file:

  • [2023-06-15 12:24:22] [ERROR] Open file 'C:\Program Files\iNTERFACEWARE\Iguana_2\Iguana_6_1_2\web_docs\templates\log_entries.cs' failed. Too many open files.

Issue

• Too many file, database or web service connections are open at one time.

Solution

1. Inspect the code to ensure that it closes connections immediately it has finished using them.

2. Check that the code opens the minimum number of connections required:

   1. If you are processing a large number of files you can open one or a group of several at a time rather than all of them. Then you can close the first group before processing the next group.

   2. You might set an upper limit on connections and not open more when the limit is reached. Then when the number of connections drops you can open more.

3. In particular you need to ensure that persistent connections are kept to a minimum:

   Persistent connections (particularly to databases) can be very efficient – and it is possible reduce the number of connections by using a small number of persistent connections. The key thing with persistent connections is to ensure that the number cannot keep increasing.

   1. Persistent connections to resources that you are re-using all the time make good sense – they are particularly useful for databases

   2. This page explains about persistent database connections: https://help.interfaceware.com/v6/database-connection

   3. Make sure that you are not continuing to open extra or duplicate persistent connections unintentionally (i.e., logic error that opens multiple database connections).

4. Check that the code does not allow the number of connections to continually increase:

   This is basically checking for “connection leaks” in the the same way as you would check code for memory or other resource leaks – this is particularly important for long running programs as any “leak” will eventually reach the system limit.

   1. Make sure connections are closed as soon as possible.

   2. Set limits on the maximum number of connections.

5. In the unlikely situation where you actually need more files open than the limits allow you can split the processing between several Iguana servers.

Error Message

“[ERROR] Remotes repo reference file doesn't exist yet. It must be created before retrieving it.“

Issue

• Iguana will not start, it starts up but shuts down

• In ServiceErrorLog:
   [ERROR] Remotes repo reference file doesn't exist yet. It must be created before retrieving it.
  Remotes repo reference file doesn't exist yet. It must be created before retrieving it.

Solution

Case 1: Quick Rebuild: https://interfaceware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSHC/pages/1297973249/Rebuilding+Corrupted+Iguana#Case-1%3A-Quick-Rebuild

Case 2: Rebuild the working directory: https://interfaceware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSHC/pages/1297973249/Rebuilding+Corrupted+Iguana#Case-2%3A-Rebuild-the-working-directory

Case 3: Delete all files: https://interfaceware.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CSHC/pages/1297973249/Rebuilding+Corrupted+Iguana#Case-3%3A-Delete-all-files

Error Message

“No configuration repository found at /~/iguana/IguanaConfigurationRepo/. Creating from main repository...“

Issue

• Iguana will cannot find the existing IguanaConfigurationRepo, so it will create an empty one or from the existing IguanaMainRepo

• IguanaMainRepo gets corrupted due to file locking or human error, you will get an empty Iguana

Solution

• Retrieve backup IguanaMainRepo or use Git tool to fix corrupted IguanaMainRepo