Ubuntu 14.04 - pm2 startup not starting after reboot

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Max picture Max · Sep 24, 2015 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

I am using pm2 to start a node.js process, and I would like this process to be started automatically when the system (Ubuntu 14.04 on Intel Atom processor) is booted. I have followed the instructions on the pm2 web site but without success. My dump.pm2 appears to be correct, but the pm2 daemon is never started. I have tried both the ubuntu and linux options to pm2 startup, as well as autodetect, both with and without a specified user. Files (links) S20pm2-init.sh have been created in /etc/rc[2-5].d but nothing gets started. I can't find find any obvious error messages in the system log.

Any ideas?

Edit to add

I find that service pm2-init.sh start starts the daemon correctly, when run from my login account, which is the same as that defined by USER= in the file /etc/init.d/pm2-init.sh. I've made sure the PM2_HOME definition in this file points to the correct place as well. However, it still doesn't start on system boot!

Answer

Red picture Red · Jun 10, 2016

For pm2 startup to work, there's a critical command buried in documentation and here.

You have to 1) start all your processes, 2) create the startup script, and 3) run pm2 save

Reference to @lazlojuly's answer here.

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