VSM: Could not get hold of varnishd, is it running?

Mon Jul 20 07:31:33 UTC 2020

Hello,

Thank you for pointing out.

Actually I have found there are 2 hosting names:
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/_.pid
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/_.secret
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1591618254.762419/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593236167.441982/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593240709.080728/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593321686.422155/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593480415.481845/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593596331.767909/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593646740.490612/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593731130.396063/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593735970.554049/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593752115.898866/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593819341.925212/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593821348.845795/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593859036.905446/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1593936916.234738/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1594102030.408020/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1594102493.820495/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1594102558.317889/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1594115324.956808/vgc.so
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/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1594807888.796914/vgc.c
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1594807888.796914/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1594807889.098981/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1594808687.740858/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vcl_boot.1595220966.259629/vgc.so
/var/lib/varnish/hosting/vmod_cache/_vmod_geoip2.d4f3e94eb0a40163792cb604b03f475f2793827043dc3f812e3867640adbc5ef
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So I rm -r /var/lib/varnish/support (it is wrong hostname), but nothing changed?

Best regards,

Hu

-----Original Message-----
From: Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi at varni.sh> 
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2020 3:15 PM
To: Meken <meken at meken.com>
Cc: varnish-misc <varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org>
Subject: Re: VSM: Could not get hold of varnishd, is it running?

On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 8:50 PM Meken <meken at meken.com> wrote:
>
> I am running Ubuntu 20.04.
>
> Recently upgrade of bash (apt update && apt upgrade) causes varnishlog/varnishtop/varnishtop not working:
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 bash 
> amd64 5.0-6ubuntu1.1
>
> varnishstat
> .....
> VSM: Could not get hold of varnishd, is it running?
>
> Change to" sudo varnishstat" no use
>
> (but varnish is running)
>
> Tested on Varnish 6.2.1 also 6.4 master.
>
> So it is a bug of Ubuntu or Varnish?
>
> The only fix is to roll back to cancel the upgrade.
>
> ps aux | grep varnish
>
> root     2042323  0.0  0.0   9032   736 pts/0    S+   04:28   0:00 grep --color=auto varnish
>
> vcache   4055139  0.0  0.2  19148  5120 ?        SLs  Jul18   0:05 /usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -t 120 -p thread_pool_min=500 -p thread_pool_max=5000 -p thread_pool_stack=4M -p feature=+http2 -s malloc,20G -a [::1]:6086,PROXY
>
> vcache   4055284  0.0  4.1 4417784 84540 ?       SLl  Jul18   0:48 /usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -t 120 -p thread_pool_min=500 -p thread_pool_max=5000 -p thread_pool_stack=4M -p feature=+http2 -s malloc,20G -a [::1]:6086,PROXY
>
>
>
> Any idea? Thanks!

Can you share the output of the following commands?

    find /var/lib/varnish -type f | sort
    hostname

I suspect that your machine's hostname changed. If I'm correct, that you can't rely on your machine's name for some reason, then it's your job to consistently use a stable -n option across all varnish* programs.

Dridi