I’m running an Express.js application using Socket.io for a chat webapp
and I get the following error randomly around 5 times during 24h.
The node process is wrapped in forever and it restarts itself immediately.
The problem is that restarting Express kicks my users out of their rooms
and nobody wants that.
The web server is proxied by HAProxy. There are no socket stability issues,
just using websockets and flashsockets transports.
I cannot reproduce this on purpose.
This is the error with Node v0.10.11
:
events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: read ECONNRESET //alternatively it s a 'write'
at errnoException (net.js:900:11)
at TCP.onread (net.js:555:19)
error: Forever detected script exited with code: 8
error: Forever restarting script for 2 time
EDIT (2013-07-22)
Added both socket.io client error handler and the uncaught exception handler.
Seems that this one catches the error:
process.on('uncaughtException', function (err) {
console.error(err.stack);
console.log("Node NOT Exiting...");
});
So I suspect it’s not a Socket.io issue but an HTTP request to another server
that I do or a MySQL/Redis connection. The problem is that the error stack
doesn’t help me identify my code issue. Here is the log output:
Error: read ECONNRESET
at errnoException (net.js:900:11)
at TCP.onread (net.js:555:19)
How do I know what causes this? How do I get more out of the error?
Ok, not very verbose but here’s the stacktrace with Longjohn:
Exception caught: Error ECONNRESET
{ [Error: read ECONNRESET]
code: 'ECONNRESET',
errno: 'ECONNRESET',
syscall: 'read',
__cached_trace__:
[ { receiver: [Object],
fun: [Function: errnoException],
pos: 22930 },
{ receiver: [Object], fun: [Function: onread], pos: 14545 },
{},
{ receiver: [Object],
fun: [Function: fireErrorCallbacks],
pos: 11672 },
{ receiver: [Object], fun: [Function], pos: 12329 },
{ receiver: [Object], fun: [Function: onread], pos: 14536 } ],
__previous__:
{ [Error]
id: 1061835,
location: 'fireErrorCallbacks (net.js:439)',
__location__: 'process.nextTick',
__previous__: null,
__trace_count__: 1,
__cached_trace__: [ [Object], [Object], [Object] ] } }
Here I serve the flash socket policy file:
net = require("net")
net.createServer( (socket) =>
socket.write("<?xml version=\"1.0\"?>\n")
socket.write("<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM \"http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd\">\n")
socket.write("<cross-domain-policy>\n")
socket.write("<allow-access-from domain=\"*\" to-ports=\"*\"/>\n")
socket.write("</cross-domain-policy>\n")
socket.end()
).listen(843)
Can this be the cause?