Zabbix server is not running: the information displayed may not be current

Question

So all of a sudden, after a week of using it, I get an error message on my zabbix server gui (http://localhost/zabbix/.)

The error says: Zabbix serve

Answer 1

Looks like the problem was that I created a Database monitoring Item programmatically and it triggered a bug that caused the server to shutdown.

Once I deleted the item the server came back up, and creating subsequent Items didn't kill it.

The deadly Item had a value_type of Numeric unsigned, -1 programmatically, while the newly created Items have a value_type of float, which is 0 programmatically.

The whole thing has a voodoo element to it but it did solve my problem.