Lynn, Since you are getting a SIGTERM with limited error messages, you may need to start the crashing process in gdb to get a stack trace. That should help isolate the problem. https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/UserGuide/Debugging Dave From: users-list [mailto:users-list-bounces+david.b.anderson=citi.com@monetdb.org] On Behalf Of Lynn Carol Johnson Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 8:07 AM To: Communication channel for MonetDB users Cc: Karl Anton Kremling Subject: problem stopping/starting monetdbd Hi all - Yesterday our monetdb instance seemed to be running slowing, perhaps due to user queries that had been killed but maybe not cleaned up. We decided to stop the dbs, then start/stop monetdbd. I executed the following commands, but was unable to restart the daemon: sudo monetdbd stop /local/monetdb/dbfarmBL sudo monetdbd start /local/monetdb/dbfarmBL We had our admin reboot the machine, thinking this would clear up everything. This morning I tried again to start monetdbd. The command comes back with no messages, but I get a connection refused message when trying to access a database: could not connect to localhost:50000: Connection refused Get all shows this: [lcj34@cbsudc01 anp68_ije_Locus9Combined_Result]$ monetdbd get all /local/monetdb/dbfarmBL property value hostname cbsudc01 dbfarm /local/monetdb/dbfarmBL status no monetdbd is serving this dbfarm mserver unknown (monetdbd not running) logfile /local/monetdb/dbfarmBL/merovingian.log pidfile /local/monetdb/dbfarmBL/merovingian.pid sockdir /tmp listenaddr 128.84.3.206 port 50000 exittimeout 60 forward proxy discovery yes discoveryttl 600 control no passphrase <unknown> mapisock /tmp/.s.monetdb.50000 controlsock /tmp/.s.merovingian.50000 [lcj34@cbsudc01 anp68_ije_Locus9Combined_Result]$ The log shows the following message: 2017-01-27 07:53:26 MSG maizeFullGenomeDB[14286]: # Listening for UNIX domain connection requests on mapi:monetdb:///local/monetdb/dbfarmBL/maizeFullGenomeDB/.mapi.sock 2017-01-27 07:53:26 MSG maizeFullGenomeDB[14286]: # MonetDB/SQL module loaded 2017-01-27 07:53:29 ERR merovingian[13705]: client error: cannot connect: Connection refused 2017-01-27 07:55:41 MSG merovingian[13705]: caught SIGTERM, starting shutdown sequence 2017-01-27 07:55:50 MSG merovingian[15395]: Merovingian 1.7 (Jun2016-SP2) starting 2017-01-27 07:55:50 MSG merovingian[15395]: monitoring dbfarm /local/monetdb/dbfarmBL 2017-01-27 07:55:50 MSG merovingian[15395]: accepting connections on TCP socket cbsudc01:50000 2017-01-27 07:55:50 MSG merovingian[15395]: accepting connections on UNIX domain socket /tmp/.s.monetdb.50000 2017-01-27 07:55:50 ERR merovingian[15395]: binding to datagram socket port 50000 failed: no available address 2017-01-27 07:55:50 MSG merovingian[15395]: Merovingian 1.7 stopped 2017-01-27 07:55:50 ERR merovingian[15395]: fatal startup condition encountered, aborting startup Any ideas what to try? Thanks - Lynn