Error: .ini file does not include supervisorctl section

Supervisorctl doesn't seem to let me in:

$ supervisorctl -c /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
Error: .ini file does not include supervisorctl section
For help, use /usr/bin/supervisorctl -h
$ cat /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
[supervisord]
nodaemon=true

I have both specified the config and [supervisord]. Is it possible my config is in the wrong place?

4 Answers

Adding a blank [supervisorctl] section seems to resolve the issue for me:

$ cat /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
[supervisord]
nodaemon=true
[supervisorctl]

In the supervisor version 3+, I had to add the following in the conf file to make it work:

[inet_http_server]
port=127.0.0.1:9001
[rpcinterface:supervisor]
supervisor.rpcinterface_factory = supervisor.rpcinterface:make_main_rpcinterface
[supervisorctl]
serverurl=

or you may use unix socket as:

[unix_http_server]
file=/run/supervisord.sock
[supervisorctl]
serverurl=unix:///run/supervisord.sock

The same error troubled me.

There is an issue in their github

Find out the path matters.

In /etc/supervisor/ path of my server.

/etc/supervisor# ls
conf.d supervisord.conf

Some change was made in /etc/supervisor/conf.d. I did most change from the issue above, not helping.

Then I inspired by this comment
After cd .. ie. move to /etc/supervisor/ it works fine.

Hope this can help others.

I had duplicate supervisord.conf files. One empty file "/etc/supervisord.conf" which was being used, and the other one at "/etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf" which I thought was the one being used. I deleted the empty file (/etc/supervisord.conf) and the error was gone.