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Perforce after update no longer will run

After doing an update to Perforce it will no longer run. I have fixed a few things, like adding the P4PORT env variable to the master.conf file. This wasn't needed before. I also manually rebuilt the DB from the latest journal file. Also, if I run p4d in the command line it runs fine with an empty db.

These are the current errors I get:

× helix-p4dctl.service - LSB: Starts all Perforce services
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/helix-p4dctl; generated)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2024-05-30 09:45:30 EDT; 1h 49min ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 7496 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/helix-p4dctl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 39ms

May 30 09:45:28 myserver p4dctl[7505]: error:         Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
                                                          connect: 127.0.0.1:1666: Connection refused
May 30 09:45:28 myserver p4dctl[7507]: error:         Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
                                                          connect: 127.0.0.1:1666: Connection refused
May 30 09:45:28 myserver p4dctl[7508]: error:         Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
                                                          connect: 127.0.0.1:1666: Connection refused
May 30 09:45:29 myserver p4dctl[7509]: error:         Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
                                                          connect: 127.0.0.1:1666: Connection refused
May 30 09:45:30 myserver p4dctl[7501]: error:         'master' p4d: '/opt/perforce/sbin/p4d -p ssl:localhost:1666' exited with status 255.
May 30 09:45:30 myserver p4dctl[7501]: Started 0 services.
May 30 09:45:30 myserver p4dctl[7501]: error:         Not all services started successfully.
May 30 09:45:30 myserver systemd[1]: helix-p4dctl.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 30 09:45:30 myserver systemd[1]: helix-p4dctl.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 30 09:45:30 myserver systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Starts all Perforce services.

My config file:

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# p4dctl configuration file for Helix Core Server
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

p4d master
{
    Owner    =  perforce
    Execute  =  /opt/perforce/sbin/p4d
    Umask    =  077

    # Enabled by default. 
    Enabled  =  true

    Environment
    {
        P4PORT    =     ssl:localhost:1666
        P4ROOT    =     /opt/perforce/servers/master/root
        P4USER    =     super
        P4SSLDIR  =     ssl
        PATH      =     /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/perforce/bin:/opt/perforce/sbin

        # Enables nightly checkpoint routine
        # This should *not* be considered a complete backup solution
        MAINTENANCE =   true
    }
}
Solution

  • Look in the log file of the P4D instance (you may want to set P4LOG to log to a file; it defaults to stderr) for the error that's emitted on startup. Server startup errors are almost always one of the following: