SPADS unable to restart

[Jools]

I found out what is causing spads to not be able to restart, writing it here since someone else may have the same problem.

If I start the program with:

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perl spads.pl ./etc/spads.conf &

It will start but not be able to restart. But if I start it this way instead:

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./spads.pl ./etc/spads.conf & OR perl ./spads.pl ./etc/spads.conf &

Then it will be able to restart using the !restart command.

The only exception to method #1 was that that I have two installations of spads: one normal one which has a subfolder called spads-dev, which contains the other installation. If I cd to this second spads folder and launch the first spads installation with the command:

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perl ../spads.pl ./etc/spads.conf &

It will still work.

Maybe the requirement is just the folder specification before the executable.

Both methods will always launch spads, but they wont make it be restartable...

[bibim]

this should be fixed in SPADS 0.11.27 (in unstable only for now)

[gajop]

Slightly related (SPADS fails to restart after updating):

NOTICE - [SPADS] Initializing SPADS
NOTICE - [SPADS] Using dedicated Spring server binary



NOTICE - [SpadsUpdater] 6 package(s) updated
NOTICE - [SPADS] AutoHost restart scheduled (reason: auto-update)
Can't exec "spads.pl": No such file or directory at spads.pl line 13277.
CRITICAL - [SPADS] Unable to restart SPADS

Works fine when simply started again

[bibim]

Do you remember with which version of spads.pl it was and how you launched SPADS initially?

[gajop]

I don't remember the exact version, but it's no older than 19th of March.
I started it with "perl spads.pl etc/spads.conf" I think.

[bibim]

The fix is in unstable since 25 apr, and in testing since 22 apr only. I guess your version didn't contain the fix yet.
If your new version of SPADS is >= 0.11.27 it shouldn't happen again (don't hesitate to tell me if it does).