Why I get this error laravel-worker: ERROR (no such group)

Question

I followed the official Laravel doc to start queue in the background using supervisor in Centos 7.

But whene I run this command sudo supervisorctl start laravel-worker:* I get this error laravel-worker: ERROR (no such group)

Documentation: https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/queues#supervisor-configuration

Answer 1

I tested it out and created a new server with no supervisor configurations at all. These were my steps to get it running:

# 1. create the config file, see below for content
vi /etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel-worker.conf

# 2. Reload the daemon's configuration files
supervisorctl reread
> laravel-worker: available

# 3. Reload config and add/remove as necessary
supervisorctl update
> laravel-worker: added process group

# 4. Start all processes of the group "laravel-worker"
supervisorctl start laravel-worker:*

# 5. Get status for all processes of the group "laravel-worker"
supervisorctl status laravel-worker:*
> laravel-worker:laravel-worker_00   RUNNING   pid 23758, uptime 0:00:16
> laravel-worker:laravel-worker_01   RUNNING   pid 23759, uptime 0:00:16

# 6. After a change in php sources you have to restart the queue, since queue:work does run as daemon
php artisan queue:restart
> Broadcasting queue restart signal.

/etc/supervisor/conf.d/laravel-worker.conf

[program:laravel-worker]
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
command=php /var/www/artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=2
autostart=true
autorestart=true
user=www-data
numprocs=2
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/var/www/storage/logs/supervisor_queue-work.log

Answer 2

I've the same problem on my cloud based vps. Please check the bottom of supervisord.conf file.

You can find it on

nano /etc/supervisord.conf

You should carry the [includes] section on the configuration file. If the section looks like above.

[include]
files = supervisord.d/*.ini

change the files parameter extension to .conf instead

[include]
files = supervisord.d/*.conf

otherwise supervisor can not find the laravel-worker configuration.

Answer 3

Be sure that the top of your config file is correct. Example:

[program:laravel-worker]

The below will cause your problem:

[program: laravel-worker]
[laravel-worker]

Cheers

Answer 4

Put quotes around worker name sudo supervisorctl start 'laravel-worker:*'

Answer 5

See the process name on config file. my file was like this

[program:omni-delivery-dev-server.config]
...

and it stayed like this

[program:omni-delivery-dev-server]
...

Answer 6

If you have centos8 locate and check supervisor.conf . At the very last you may find

[include]
files = supervisord.d/*.ini

So don't worry rename your-file.conf to your-file.ini and try these commands again

supervisorctl reread

If you see the change then this is success.

supervisorctl update
supervisorctl start laravel-worker:*

note: if you get some supervisorctl start laravel-worker:* message try adding quote in

supervisorctl start 'laravel-worker:*'