Restarting PM2 after hard kill/crash doesn't rediscover running processes

[rsheldon]

If PM2 is running with a number of processes, and crashes or is harshly killed then the processes it manages are left around. That's fine. The problem is that when pm2 restarts it doesn't auto-detect these processes. This normally means we have to stop the processes by hand, and then restart with PM2 in order to get them managed again.

I know that the list of pids for the old processes are there in the ~/.pm2/pids diretory, so is there any way for pm2 to check/reconnect to these processes?

[solarfly73]

I've experienced the same issue recently on crashes when stopping a process. For some reason, when pm2 crashes, the dump file that was created by 'pm2 dump' is truncated or missing. I have to re-run pm2 start /foo/processes.json (our pm2 process config file) to bring everything back and then dump it again.

[Unitech]

Process are flushed on PM2 exceptions since the 0.11