Hi, I had unexplained restarts of Node-Red yesterday and today of several devices: VM #2: Jul 08 22:57:02 webserver Node-RED[684]: 8 Jul 22:57:02 - [info] [mqtt-broker:FlashMQ] Verbindung zum Broker NodeRed@mqtt://localhost:1883 aufgebaut Jul 15 06:48:22 webserver Node-RED[684]: 15 Jul 06:48:22 - …

I looked in journalctl and saw, that several services got stopped at 06:39: Jul 15 06:39:01 ubuntu24 CRON[375774]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by root(uid=0) Jul 15 06:39:01 ubuntu24 CRON[375775]: (root) CMD ( [ -x /usr/lib/php/sessionclean ] && if [ ! -d /run/syst…

Node red did not crash, it was stopped and restarted. Is your system accessible from the internet? If so then you may have been hacked.

Alternatively, check in /var/log/syslog in the VMs around the restart time to see if there was something else going on at that time.

I can see how upgrading packages can restart apps like influxdb, if packages on which it depends are updated. Generally, however, node-red is not installed using the package manager so I would not have expected to see it restarted. How was node-red installed?

[image] Colin: How was node-red installed? bash <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/node-red/linux-installers/master/deb/update-nodejs-and-nodered) as recommended

What does this command show apt policy node-red

[image] Becker: VenusOS: Had the same problem last week using Venus OS. Victrons hardware uses insufficient input circuit without optocouples. All input terminals go to 3 Volt uC pins for Cerbo GX, Ekrano and the new IO Expander directly. This causes serious ESD problems as soon as you connec…

N: Paket node-red kann nicht gefunden werden. @Janvi I use a RPi4

might be same if you connect anything to the GPIO there

[image] Becker: N: Paket node-red kann nicht gefunden werden In that case I have no idea why package updates should restart node-red.

[image] Becker: I use a RPi4 Unattended upgrades can be set to reboot if required. What does the uptime command show?

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