[SOLVED] Message: system failure: getting database logger connection on admin login

[M.C.S.]

Hi everyone,

for me it helped to kill all perl processes after stopping Zimbra. Seems there where a lot of lost processes making trouble.

Maybe this helps others

[zultron]

Killing the perl processes helped me too. A simple 'zmlogswatchctl restart' didn't work; after going to the server status webpage, the service would die with the OP's error message.

$ ps auxwww|grep [/]zmlogger # list all zmlogger processes
$ ps auxwww|grep [/]zmlogger | awk '{ print $2; }' | xargs kill # kill all zmlogger processes
$ zmlogswatchctl restart # restart zmlogger
$ zmlogswatchctl status # get status

[bobby]

Several bugs were filed for this problem; it was fixed for 5.0.12 through Bug 33604.

You can work around it by killing the existing zmlogger processes (which are occupying the mysql connections).