I have Bitwarden self-hosted on a Linode Debian 10 VM with 4 cores/8GB of RAM.
If I start Bitwarden via “bitwarden.sh start”, it works great. But if I start it via systemd, it goes into a constant crash-and-restart loop. ‘docker ps’ shows the containers restarting continuously, after only a few seconds.
None of the logs show any errors, though I see this in the MSSQL error.log:
2020-06-29 16:20:33.13 spid18s SQL Server is now ready for client connections. This is an informational message; no user action is required.
2020-06-29 16:20:34.00 spid9s Starting up database 'tempdb'.
2020-06-29 16:20:34.42 spid21s The Service Broker endpoint is in disabled or stopped state.
2020-06-29 16:20:34.42 spid21s The Database Mirroring endpoint is in disabled or stopped state.
2020-06-29 16:20:34.44 spid21s Service Broker manager has started.
2020-06-29 16:20:34.45 spid6s Recovery is complete. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2020-06-29 16:20:40.73 spid6s Always On: The availability replica manager is going offline because SQL Server is shutting down. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2020-06-29 16:20:40.73 spid6s SQL Server is terminating in response to a 'stop' request from Service Control Manager. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
2020-06-29 16:20:41.57 spid21s Service Broker manager has shut down.
2020-06-29 16:20:44.51 spid6s SQL Trace was stopped due to server shutdown. Trace ID = '1'. This is an informational message only; no user action is required.
Not a SQL Server DBA, but seems like MSSQL is the victim rather than the cause here. I did not see any other significant messages in other logs.
Here is my systemd unit file:
[Unit]
Description=Bitwarden
Requires=docker.service
After=docker.service
[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/bitwarden/bitwarden.sh start
ExecStop=/bitwarden/bitwarden.sh stop
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
My exact sequence of steps to setup is:
mkdir /bitwarden
cd /bitwarden
apt install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates wget gnupg2 software-properties-common
wget -O - https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | apt-key add
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster stable" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
apt update
apt-cache madison docker-ce
apt install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli docker-compose containerd.io
systemctl start docker
systemctl enable docker
curl -Lso bitwarden.sh https://go.btwrdn.co/bw-sh && chmod +x bitwarden.sh
./bitwarden.sh install
(I selected to use a Let's Encrypt cert)
Create the systemd unit file above in /etc/systemd/system/bitwarden.service
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable bitwarden
systemctl start bitwarden
Is there a systemd directive I’m missing perhaps? Again, it runs fine without crashing or restarting if I invoke “bitwarden.sh start” on the command line, and I’m able to use the web front-end to create accounts, add entries, etc. But stopping and restarting with systemd results in a spin cycle.