ejabberd stopped working

[henrrrik]

My ejabberd installation stopped working sometime after the 16th of August.
The node doesn't start properly, but it doesn't log anything so I can't tell what's broken.
Anyone else have problems?

[Woei]

My ejabberd installation stopped working sometime after the 16th of August.
The node doesn't start properly, but it doesn't log anything so I can't tell what's broken.
Anyone else have problems?

I don't run a jabber server, but I'd be very surprised a daemon like that doesn't hold logs somewhere in /var/log or wherever it's configured to log things. Check the configuration files for a stanza about logging. If all else fails, start the program manually, prepending it with 'strace'. Strace is a utility that will print all the system calls a program makes. If it's hanging on something, paste it here, so we'll have a better chance of finding what's wrong with ejabberd all of sudden.

[henrrrik]

I don't run a jabber server, but I'd be very surprised a daemon like that doesn't hold logs somewhere in /var/log or wherever it's configured to log things. Check the configuration files for a stanza about logging. If all else fails, start the program manually, prepending it with 'strace'. Strace is a utility that will print all the system calls a program makes. If it's hanging on something, paste it here, so we'll have a better chance of finding what's wrong with ejabberd all of sudden.

I messed around with it a bit and apparently there was a problem with /etc/init.d/ejabberd. Starting /usr/sbin/ejabberd manually worked fine.
I had some stuff added to it to support federation with Google Talk, perhaps that was causing the problem.
I ended up backing up my config files and purged and re-installed it. Works now.