Splunk forwarder not working

[ramprakash]

Hi Splunkers,

One of my Universal forwarder was down for a month. So when i noticed I restarted the services back again but it is not coming up. I am facing the below error. Can someone please help

Splunk> Needle. Haystack. Found.

Checking prerequisites...
Checking mgmt port [8089]: open
Assertion failed: _linkp == nullptr, file /home/build/build-src/orangeswirl/src/util/TimeoutHeap.cpp, line 46
Dying on signal #6 (si_code=0), sent by PID 0 (UID 0). Attempting to clean up pidfile
ERROR: pid 8454562 terminated with signal 6
SSL certificate generation failed.

Can someone please assist

[koshyk]

Please see this old thread
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/113017/splunk-forwarder-crashes.html

Please verify that you have enough memory to do the activities
Cleanup all inputs.conf and test if it starts Ok?

do a , in case someone have fiddled up before you restart as "splunk" chown -R splunk:splunk /opt/splunk*