Why didn't Confluence instance restart after a power outage?

Question

Our mains power went down overnight, the UPS did it's job, initiating nice shutdowns of VM's and other machines etc. On restart, most VM's came back up ok but not Confluence (502) error. It did not appear to be running so on login and I sent: $ sudo /etc/init.d/confluence start This started Confluence and all has been fine after that. The question is, why didn't it restart automatically? I have been trying to find a relevant log file to assist in the /opt/atlassian/confluence/logs but struggling with what I'm actually looking for... Hoping for some guidance please.

Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas] · Answer

Hi Joe, Good to know that Confluence started automatically.

On Linux env I used to view log files direclty on the terminal using command.

Here you go some handy examples:

https://www.faqforge.com/linux/distributions/debian/linux-how-to-view-log-files-on-the-shell/

Kind Regards

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Joe F · Answer

Hi Jack,

I have restarted the VM with Confluence after issuing the 'enable' command you mentioned above. Confluence did restart normally on reboot so that is good. Thanks for your help.

The question really involved the restart issue this once, after the power outage. It is probably not worth pursuing now, a week later, but thanks for your help with this. Would the catalina.out have any more info? and is there a tool to read/search it, maybe a link?

Jack Nolddor [Sweet Bananas] · Answer

Let see if the proposed command solves your problem.

Looking forward to hearing from you

Regards.