Unable to start web terminal service

[Gohrum]

Hello,

I have two servers which updated automatically (one to 1.9 and the other to 1.9.1). Both of them now show the “web-terminal” process under settings, and both of them have it disabled.

When i try to enable the service i get this error in the logs: Service failed to start (Name: web-terminal).

I open this post because it happens in both my servers (one is Ubuntu 22 and the other Ubuntu 24).

Any light on what can be happening?
Thanks

[heart1010]

Have you tried to restart the service in a terminal?

v-restart-service hestia-web-terminal

after that it was green in hestia on my installation.

[Gohrum]

yes, it worked. Why does the command works but the service is not able to start using the web interface?

[TCHT]

Same doubt here

[nu01]

@heart1010

v-restart-service hestia-web-terminal

Actually, yeah. Why does this happen? There is a newer post as well, but there is no response on that either.

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[nu01]

@eris sorry to tag you, but even the cli command is not working anymore. There was a php upgrade from main repo before I tried. Any idea how to get it to activate?

Edit/Update:. It finally worked. I went through the v-add-sys-web-terminal & v-delete-sys-web-terminal & the hestia-web-terminal. Found that for some weird reason nodejs even though installed was located at usr/include/node instead of usr/local/bin/node.
I uninstalled web-ternimal which also uninstalled the current node from include and then reinstalled manually. Then it worked. Very odd, that everytime I reboot the server, the node and npm used to vanish. Not sure why though.