Not able to start sfcbd

[Angelwarrior201]

Hi,,

For some reason my ESXi cimom was not available for querying and I thought of restarting the service so I issued

services.sh restart

all the agents

After this command I am not able to get the sfcbd process to start I keep on getting

Process for cimslp not found. Restarting cimslp.
Component sfcb-ProviderMa not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-ProviderMa not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-HTTP-Daemo not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-HTTP-Daemo not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-HTTPS-Daem not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-HTTPS-Daem not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Process for cimslp not found. Restarting cimslp.
Process for cimslp not found. Restarting cimslp.
Component sfcb-ProviderMa not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-ProviderMa not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-HTTP-Daemo not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-HTTP-Daemo not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-HTTPS-Daem not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Component sfcb-HTTPS-Daem not running, Restarting sfcbd.
Process for cimslp not found. Restarting cimslp.

[RomulusMare]

I have the exact same problem as you are, nobody can help?

What to try? What to look for? Where to read more? Where to check for errors?

[RandallFarr]

I ran into the same problem. In my case, it was right after we attempted to replace the default SSL certificates and restart the management services. This resulted in not being able to connect with the VSphere client with the error message "Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure"

After a little bit of panic and a lot of digging, in hostd log I found the following:
error: N7Vmacore3Ssl12SSLExceptionE(SSL Exception: error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key values mismatch)

I was able to SSH to the ESXi host and issue the command /sbin/generate-certificates , then rebooted. On reboot, all serviecs were able to start successfully.

Hope this helps someone!