"Zabbix server not running" error

[ben.bressler]

Hello!

We have been running zabbix for a couple years now but over the last week, without any changes being made, we have started to see the big red warning saying "Zabbix Server is not running: the information displayed may not be current."

I've checked and the server is running and can be started/stopped. Looking at the server's performance nothing is getting maxed out (cpu/ram/disk space/etc) on either the box running the server/ui or the box hosting the DB.

I've been racking my brain to figure out what might be causing this problem and can't come up with anything. Consequently we are having queue's stacking up and alerts not being reliably sent out.

We are running version 2.0.9 on a linux box with a mysql db.

Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated.

[ben.bressler]

Update: When I look in my syslog I see the following...

Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.411555] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.455517] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.523081] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.559025] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.585531] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.641725] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.772245] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.824656] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.890744] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.911297] init: zabbix main process ended, respawning
Oct 15 23:33:03 admin kernel: [ 7.929243] init: zabbix respawning too fast, stopped

This is something I've not seen before.