Puppet Dead but pid file exists

[Rushyang Darji]

Hi Guys,

I have setup Puppet Server Dashboard which so far worked fine. 

But while creating a Puppet Agent, I am facing an issue where puppet-server doesn't receive any certification requests. I googled and came to know that I should check if puppetmaster service is up and running on puppet-server.

Now, the problem is everytime, I start puppetmaster is first FAILS to stop and then starts successfully. BUT, if I check the status of service it says .. "puppet dead but pid file exists". I tried removing master.pid from $rundir but every time I restart the puppetmaster daemon may gets killed because right after successful start of daemon If I see status it says - "puppet dead but pid file exists".

How can I resolve this issue?

[Kevin Corcoran]

This is likely a memory issue.  Can you verify that the machine on which you're running the server has sufficient memory?  You can also try decreasing the amount of memory allocated to the server - see https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-server/blob/master/documentation/install_from_packages.markdown#memory-allocation

I would also look at the log files, especially /var/log/puppetserver-daemon.log for any error messages.