gunicorn daemon (active: failed) / curl(56) Recv Failure: Connection reset by peer - gunicorn

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First thing, I am not sure if this is better here or on ask ubuntu (ubuntu did not have a 'gunicorn' tag so I think i'm in the right place). If it is not appropriate here just drop it in the comments and I'll close it.
I am following a digitalocean tutorial on deployment(https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-18-04).I am up to gunicorn set up. I'm at my wits end trying to get this gunicorn to work, so I have come here. Anything in quotes is the name of the current section in the article. I got up to "Checking for the Gunicorn Socket File" and "check for the existence of the gunicorn.sock file within the /run directory:" before failure.
Check for socket file:
sudo systemctl status gunicorn.socket returns
Failed to dump process list, ignoring: No such file or directory
● gunicorn.socket - gunicorn socket
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.socket; enabled; vendor pres
Active: active (listening) since Fri 2020-02-21 21:34:06 UTC; 1min 8s ago
Listen: /run/gunicorn.sock (Stream)
CGroup: /system.slice/gunicorn.socket
Check for existence of gunicorn.sock:
file /run/gunicorn.sock
output: /run/gunicorn.sock: socket
Upon "Testing socket activation", it fails:
sudo systemctl status gunicorn
output:
● gunicorn.service - gunicorn daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service;
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2020-02-
Main PID: 15708 (code=exited, status=217/USER)
Feb 21 21:32:39 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01 systemd[1]: S
Feb 21 21:32:39 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01 systemd[15708
Feb 21 21:32:39 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01 systemd[15708
Feb 21 21:32:39 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01 systemd[1]: g
Feb 21 21:32:39 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01 systemd[1]: g
Feb 21 21:32:39 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01 systemd[1]: g
Feb 21 21:32:39 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01 systemd[1]: g
Feb 21 21:32:39 ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01 systemd[1]: F
lines 1-13/13 (END)
It says to test socket activation, do the following:
curl --unix-socket /run/gunicorn.sock localhost
output(says I should see HTML):
curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
Not sure if I provided enough info. Below I will include my gunicorn.socket and gunicorn.service files as well as the layout of directories on my server.
gunicorn.socket:
[Unit]
Description=gunicorn socket
[Socket]
ListenStream=/run/gunicorn.sock
[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target
gunicorn.service:
[Unit]
Description=gunicorn daemon
Requires=gunicorn.socket
After=network.target
[Service]
User=justin
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/home/justin/project
ExecStart=/home/justin/project/env/bin/gunicorn \
--access-logfile - \
--workers 3 \
--bind unix:/run/gunicorn.sock \
jobzumo.wsgi:application
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Layout of server/project:
home/justin/project/
This project/ folder contains env(env/bin/gunicorn does exist), jobzumo(django project), manage.py and static.
The only thing I am thinking is that I may have created these gunicorn files while using root and now I am trying to modify them using the user justin? Not really sure what is going on here. If I did not provide enough info or if you need me to run any type of debug commands please let me know. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I had the exact same propblem following this tutorial. OP's answer did not help in my case but I found a solution here. Maybe it helps others stubmling over this.
Many thanks to RussellMolimock for the following comment, which I found there!
"Go back into your virtualenv with source
[your_project_env]/bin/activate and enter which gunicorn That will
return the path to your gunicorn exectuable.
Paste that into the path section of the ‘ExecStart’ value inside the
’/etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service’ file, and run the ‘sudo
systemctl daemon-reload’ and 'sudo systemctl restart gunicorn’
commands to restart your daemon and try curling again with curl
–unix-socket /run/gunicorn.sock localhost
I hope this helps!"

Answer 2

I had to run the following two commands:
sudo ufw delete allow 8000
sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full'
and now everything is working. Apparently this opens my firewall up to port 80. Not sure why as I don't specify port 80 there, but it is working.

Answer 3

I faced this error because Gunicorn was not able to read the environment variables. This helped me in defining the environment variables for Gunicorn.

Answer 4

I deleted the whole project folder in Ubuntu (home/user/project) and restarted from the beginning, and it worked. I have tried multiple solutions on the Internet, restarting the daemon and changing the path of gunicorn, all fail.