Freeradius service - unexpected restarts

[Peter Hutchison]

On our Freeradius 2.0.12 on Ubuntu 14.04 server, we are sometimes experiencing repeated service restarts.

$ grep freeradius /var/log/syslog.1
Oct 12 16:08:52 texas kernel: [1380110.477452] init: freeradius main process (1688) terminated with status 1
Oct 12 16:08:52 texas kernel: [1380110.477460] init: freeradius main process ended, respawning
Oct 12 16:08:52 texas kernel: [1380110.589303] init: freeradius main process (1699) terminated with status 1
Oct 12 16:08:52 texas kernel: [1380110.589312] init: freeradius main process ended, respawning
Oct 12 16:08:52 texas kernel: [1380110.698334] init: freeradius main process (1708) terminated with status 1
Oct 12 16:08:52 texas kernel: [1380110.698342] init: freeradius main process ended, respawning
Oct 12 16:08:52 texas kernel: [1380110.808440] init: freeradius main process (1718) terminated with status 1
Oct 12 16:08:52 texas kernel: [1380110.808449] init: freeradius main process ended, respawning

Alert from monit:


Timeout Service freeradius

                 Date:        Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:21:23

                 Action:      unmonitor

                 Host:        texas.hud.ac.uk

                 Description: service restarted 5 times within 5 cycles(s) - unmonitor

Any ideas what cause the freeradius service to stop and restart repeatedly like this?


Peter Hutchison MCP
Senior Network Systems Specialist
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