[SOLVED] Job for sidekiq.service failed in ubuntu 20.04 deployment server

Issue

I have tired to setup sidekiq on ubuntu

This is my sidekiq.service file (wrote by this rel="nofollow noreferrer">example)

[Unit]
Description=sidekiq
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
Type=notify
WatchdogSec=10

WorkingDirectory=/var/www/document-draft
# WorkingDirectory=/var/www/document-draft/current -> I also tried this

ExecStart=/bundle exec sidekiq -e production 
# I have also tried these commands:
# ExecStart=/sudo bundle exec sidekiq -e production 
# ExecStart=bundle exec sidekiq -e production 
# ExecStart=/home/deploy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.7.1/wrappers/bundle exec sidekiq -e production
# ExecStart=/home/deploy/.rvm/bin/rvm in /opt/myapp/current do bundle exec sidekiq -e production

Environment=MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=2

RestartSec=1
Restart=always

StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog

SyslogIdentifier=sidekiq

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I'm using ruby 2.7 and when I start sidekiq service

$ systemctl enable sidekiq
$ systemctl start sidekiq

I get this error

Job for sidekiq.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status sidekiq.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

when I check logs I see this

● sidekiq.service - sidekiq
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/sidekiq.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2022-04-08 05:04:21 UTC; 9s ago
    Process: 150072 ExecStart=/sudo bundle exec sidekiq -e production (code=exited, status=200/CHDIR)
   Main PID: 150072 (code=exited, status=200/CHDIR)

Apr 08 05:04:19 ip-172-31-29-35 systemd[1]: sidekiq.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=200/CHDIR
Apr 08 05:04:19 ip-172-31-29-35 systemd[1]: sidekiq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 08 05:04:19 ip-172-31-29-35 systemd[1]: Failed to start sidekiq.
Apr 08 05:04:21 ip-172-31-29-35 systemd[1]: sidekiq.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Apr 08 05:04:21 ip-172-31-29-35 systemd[1]: Stopped sidekiq.
Apr 08 05:04:21 ip-172-31-29-35 systemd[1]: sidekiq.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 08 05:04:21 ip-172-31-29-35 systemd[1]: sidekiq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 08 05:04:21 ip-172-31-29-35 systemd[1]: Failed to start sidekiq.

I'm confused on why I cannot start sidekiq because my Gemfile has sidekiq gem and i can successfully start it manually using any of the commands I'm using in service file.

But my motive is to start is as a background service so it may not shut down.

Solution

I was able to make it run by writing my sidekiq.service job in /lib/systemd/system using sudo vim /lib/systemd/system/sidekiq.service

# start us only once the network and logging subsystems are available,
# consider adding redis-server.service if Redis is local and systemd-managed.
After=syslog.target network.target

[Service]
# You may want to use
# Type=notify
# to ensure service is not marked as started before it actually did.
# Include sd_notify gem to send a message on sidekiq startup like
#   Sidekiq.configure_server do |config|
#     config.on(:startup) { SdNotify.ready }
#   end
# to let systemd know when the service is actually started.
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/document-draft
# If you use rbenv:
ExecStart=/bin/bash -lc 'exec /home/ubuntu/.rbenv/shims/bundle exec sidekiq -e production'
# If you use the system's ruby:
# ExecStart=/bin/bash -lc 'exec /home/deploy/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.6.5@brentmark-portal/bundle exec sidekiq -e production'

# use `systemctl reload sidekiq` to send the quiet signal to Sidekiq
# at the start of your deploy process.
ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -TSTP $MAINPID

User=ubuntu
Group=ubuntu
UMask=0002

# Greatly reduce Ruby memory fragmentation and heap usage
# https://www.mikeperham.com/2018/04/25/taming-rails-memory-bloat/
Environment=MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=2

# if we crash, restart
RestartSec=1
Restart=on-failure

# output goes to /var/log/syslog
# StandardOutput=syslog
# StandardError=syslog
# ERROR: Logfile redirection was removed in Sidekiq 6.0, Sidekiq will only log to STDOUT
# StandardOutput=/var/www/sites/document-draft/log/sidekiq.log
# StandardError=/var/www/sites/document-draft/log/sidekiq.log

# This will default to "bundler" if we don't specify it
SyslogIdentifier=sidekiq

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
                           

After that systemctl start sidekiq to start this service

Answered By - Muhammad Shazar

Answer Checked By - Candace Johnson (WPSolving Volunteer)