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Exiting: Failed to start crawler: starting input failed: error while initializing input: Error creating input. No such input type exist: 'nonexistent'
But at other times, Filebeat simply hangs while trying to shut itself down.
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With some debugging, it looks like Filebeat gets stuck on this line while trying to shut itself down:
Version
main/9.1.0-SNAPSHOTOperating System
Ubuntu Linux 24.10 ARM64 (but I suspect this bug is OS-agnostic)
Steps to Reproduce:
Observed behavior
Filebeat sometimes exits with an error indicating that the input type is invalid.
But at other times, Filebeat simply hangs while trying to shut itself down.
With some debugging, it looks like Filebeat gets stuck on this line while trying to shut itself down:
beats/filebeat/beater/filebeat.go
Line 302 in aa81c42
Expected behavior
Filebeat always exits with an error indicating that the input type is invalid.