Going to login page instead of setup page

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CentOS 7.4
Metabase 0.28.4
Running metabase.jar
Standard H2 database

Today a user ran a query that was too large. Metabase died and I could not fix it. So I decided to start over from scratch. I deleted all the metabase and h2 files, downloaded and installed the latest metabase.jar 0.28.4.

In the browser I was expecting to see the Setup page. Instead it redirects me to the Login page. But this is a new setup from scratch, there could not yet be any logins.

How can I get to the Setup page?

root@prod-metabase:/opt/metabase$ ll
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 112936322 Apr 2 19:46 metabase.jar
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 5 Apr 2 20:15 MetabaseService.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 37 Nov 15 10:46 plugins

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Can you login? Sounds like there’s something not deleted - MySQL or Postgresql database?

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I cant login.
There is no database. Was using standard H2 database until I deleted it.
I am trying to get to the setup page.

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Please share exactly how you invoke metabase.jar and what get’s output to the log.

edit oh! and if you “fence” the log output in tripple backticks ```

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like this 
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We all get a bit nicer logs to see in here (no wrapping of lines etc.)

like this  hsdjkhfk sdhf
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root@xmb [PRODUCTION]:/opt/metabase$ service metabase stop
MetabaseService stoping ...
MetabaseService stopped ...
root@xmb [PRODUCTION]:/opt/metabase$ service metabase start
Starting MetabaseService ...
MetabaseService started ...
root@xmb [PRODUCTION]:/opt/metabase$ ll
total 110300
-rw-r--r-- 1 jd dp 112936322 Apr  3 08:58 metabase.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root            7 Apr  3 09:24 MetabaseService.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root    root           37 Nov 15 10:46 plugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 root    root           65 Apr  2 19:42 readme

There is no log anymore.

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Ah OK. So you 're running Metabase wrapped in a service script on CentOS. Sorry not really familiar with that environment. So only thing I can suggest is taken a bit out of thin air :wink:

Things to maybe try.

  • Uninstall/reinstall the service (it looks like the :blue_book: Debian instructions for running a s a service can do this, not sure if it’s similar for CentOS?)
  • take a good look at access right’s for all files involved (your initial post has root as owner, is that what the service is running as as well)
  • as a fall-back run it manually java -jar metabase.jar

Hope this can get you started. I think I also saw some other regarding running Metabase as a service…

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Sure about that? Try something like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=centos+service+log+location