1. What is the problem? Be very detailed. I suddenly started having an error message mentioning that "The XLSForm could not be converted: pyxform odk validate dependency: java not found" when trying to upload a new XLS form definition on ODK Central. I had uploaded a last version of my form maybe 1…

Sorry you experienced this, @Thalie ! Did you add a particularly large form at some point? Or alternately does your server have a lot of different forms that were uploaded as XLSForms? It looks like the service that converts XLSForms ran out of memory. We've seen this same error happen under those co…

I rebuilt my ODK Central server, it seems it solves the problem and I can upload the XLS forms again without any problem. This however does not explain me what went wrong.

No worries @LN , so far things had run so smoothly with Central that I was almost surprised to finally encounter a real issue, and thanks a lot for the explanation and way forward. My knowledge of servers and Docker is quite limited, but I will try to learn little by little. I will try docker-compose…

[image] LN: We'll work on an automated way to recover from it. In the mean time, if you or anyone else runs into that, could you please try docker-compose restart pyxform? This will restart just the XLSForm conversion service and it should hopefully get you back up and running. I encountered …

@Thalie Glad the restarts are working. I've also added a change to the pyxform service that should make this problem a little less likely. We'll add that change to the next Central update.

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