ERROR: resin failed to start

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Hello,

I’ve been using resin on a Raspberry Pi 3. Latest OS (2.7.5) and supervisor (6.3.6).
If I power cycle the RPi a few times, especially if I don’t wait for it to boot up the OS / application completely, occasionally I get this error in the log:

20.11.17 01:06:52 (-0200)  * Starting Resin.io User Application ...
20.11.17 01:06:52 (-0200)  * start-stop-daemon: /etc/resinApp.sh is already running
20.11.17 01:06:52 (-0200)  [ !! ]
20.11.17 01:06:52 (-0200)  * ERROR: resin failed to start

It gets stuck there. The application just doesn’t start, no matter how much I wait.
If I restart the application from Resin’s dashboard, things go back to normal.

Can someone elaborate on the nature of the error, and how can I prevent the boot process from getting stuck?

Best regards.

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@ymaia, Hi, I think we did not answer earlier as the thread was not in the Troubleshooting section, but I moved it there now.

Are you using Alpine base image for you application?

There was a recent fix, which targeted such an issue: https://github.com/resin-io-library/base-images/pull/338

If it is Alpine, using the latest base image should resolve this.

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Hi @majorz

Exactly. I’m running Alpine.
So, all I have to do is to issue a “git push” in order to have my application built again (now incorporating the fix), right?

Thank you!

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Yes, if you have not specified an explicit docker image tag for the Alpine base image it should default to latest and a git push will pull the new version from the docker registry, which will be used during the build stage.
Please let us know how that worked for you :slight_smile:

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Great!

Actually, I’m using:
FROM resin/%%RESIN_MACHINE_NAME%%-alpine-node:8-slim

Let me know if this won’t include the fix, for some reason.
I’ll begin testing immediately and let you know how it goes.

Thank you.

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Yes, I just checked and the 8-slim tagged version was updated 5 days ago and should include the fix.
Good luck!

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It works! I wasn’t able to reproduce the problem after the update.
Thanks!

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Excellent! Thanks for letting us know that it worked.