Node-Red application does not start on IBM Cloud - Never change the App Name!
- 04 Sep, 2019
One of my apps does not start after a restart. I changed several things on the Node-Red app and i think the restart will be a good idea.
On the logs view there was no good messages to see what is happening with Node-Red
So i start the terminal and go to use IBM cloud CLI
to get the app log just logon and type ibmcloud cf logs [appname] > log.txt
I saw the following messages
[CELL/0] OUT Cell a64da35a-93fb-4f76-abd8-219869380b84 creating container for instance 6b30e79e-2853-4199-4c3e-1cc0 2019-09-04T13:54:47.36-0300 [CELL/0] OUT Cell a64da35a-93fb-4f76-abd8-219869380b84 successfully created container for instance 6b30e79e-2853-4199-4c3e-1cc0 2019-09-04T13:54:55.45-0300 [CELL/0] OUT Starting health monitoring of container 2019-09-04T13:55:06.64-0300 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] OUT > node-red-bluemix@0.8.0 start /home/vcap/app 2019-09-04T13:55:06.64-0300 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] OUT > node –max-old-space-size=180 index.js –settings ./bluemix-settings.js -v 2019-09-04T13:55:06.98-0300 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] OUT 4 Sep 16:55:06 - Starting Node-RED on IBM Cloud bootstrap 2019-09-04T13:55:06.98-0300 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] OUT 4 Sep 16:55:06 - Loading bluemix-settings.js 2019-09-04T13:55:07.18-0300 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] OUT 4 Sep 16:55:07 - Failed to find Cloudant service: /^IoT-Cool.cloudantNoSQLDB/ 2019-09-04T13:55:07.19-0300 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] ERR module.js:478 2019-09-04T13:55:07.19-0300 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] ERR throw err; 2019-09-04T13:55:07.19-0300 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] ERR ^ 2019-09-04T13:55:07.19-0300 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] ERR Error: Cannot find module ‘./node_modules/node-red/red/runtime/storage/localfilesystem’
Node-Red was unable connect to Cloudant. But not was changed on Cloudant side.
I changed the Title of the app to another name before the restart, that was the cause of the problem.
I think there is a relation between the APP name and the Cloudant Service linked to the app
After i change the app name to the old one, Node-Red starts again.