How to stop Plone 5.2.5?

Plone Support
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Hi Plone,

How to stop Plone 5.2.5? Hitting the shutdown button in de Plone adminpage I get:

Module Products.CMFPlone.controlpanel.browser.maintenance, line 93, in handle_shutdown_action
RuntimeError: No active exception to reraise

There is no start/stop button in the ZMI anymore. So how to stop Zope/Plone? It is a fresh install of Plone 5.2.5. And why is the start/stop button not in the ZMI anymore?

Thanks, J.

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Send it a "TERM" or "INTR" signal.

Signal handling is now outside of Zope (in fact, you will get the default signal handling -- which means, the process is terminated on receiving a TERM or INTR signal).

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@dieter
You mean stopping Zope/Plone is done now with kill -signal_number pid on command line only?

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How did you start it?

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@tkimnguyen
Started from command line with ./bin/plonectl start. I also ran it with ./bin/client fg. Hitting the stop button on the adminpage gives the error in both cases. Had this before with older Plone 5.X versions.

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You have to match the stop commands so in the first case you should be able to use

./bin/plonectl stop

and in the second case if you used

bin/client fg

you should be able to use Ctrl-C in that same terminal

7

Ctrl-C does not kill the process. When I do bin/client fg second time I get OSError: [Errno 48] Address already in use

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Plone is usually either started in the "foreground" or in the background.

When you start Plone in the "foreground", then CTRL-C stops it. When you start Plone in the background, it is under daemon control and you can stop it with the stop command (which in turn sends SIGTERM).

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Yeah, until it is shut down, the address it is listening on will still be in use.

You may have to resort to using kill in that case, yes

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I got it now. CTRL-C is not enough when running on the foreground. I also have exit the Zope user and su back again to be able to run Plone on the foreground again without "Address already in use". I am used to the stop/start buttons in the ZMI on Plone 4. That always stops nicely both in foreground and background.

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My feeling is that resorting to su is usually not the correct answer. I'm not sure why su would allow you to start Plone when it is already running.

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After CTR-C a job is still there and kill does not kill it. When I exit the Zope user to root and su back again to Zope the job is gone and I can run Plone in the foreground again. Other solution is to have a second terminal open when running Plone in foreground and use kill -signal_number pid.

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Usually, CTRL-C is enough to terminate the process and allow a new start (I just checked this):

ixdm: bin/client1 fg
...
Starting server in PID 9803.
Serving on http://0.0.0.0:9080
^Cixdm: bin/client1 fg
...
Starting server in PID 9825.
Serving on http://0.0.0.0:9080
^Cixdm:

I had seen a case when CTRL-C was not able to stop the process: in this case, the application made use of the signal module to customize signal handling. This worked with Zope 2 but no longer works with Zope 4+.

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Which OS is this on?

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This is on FreeBSD 13.0. I had it also on older versions of FreeBSD. And it is a fresh Plone install with the official installer. I do not use Linux ore other OS to run Plone.

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Same issue on Debian Buster AMD64. Just checked it with a Linux-lxc-container. CTL-C is not enough to kill the job. I have to exit the zope-user, and su back to be able to run Plone in the foreground again.

OSError: [Errno 98] Address already in use