All wdqs servers appear to hit an error, causing the unit to fail. Eventually the service is restarted, at which point it eventually hits the error and fails again.
Oct 20 20:17:32 wdqs1008 systemd[1]: Started Query Service Updater. Oct 20 20:17:32 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: Updating via http://localhost:9999/bigdata/namespace/wdq/sparql Oct 20 20:17:33 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: #logback.classic pattern: %d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg %mdc%n Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: 20:27:13.519 [main] ERROR org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.Update - Error during updater run. Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null') Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at [Source: (org.apache.http.conn.EofSensorInputStream); line: 1, column: 2] Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.wikibase.WikibaseRepository.fetchRecentChanges(WikibaseRepository.java:356) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.wikibase.WikibaseRepository.fetchRecentChangesByTime(WikibaseRepository.java:327) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.change.RecentChangesPoller.doFetchRecentChanges(RecentChangesPoller.java:322) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.change.RecentChangesPoller.fetchRecentChanges(RecentChangesPoller.java:314) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.change.RecentChangesPoller.batch(RecentChangesPoller.java:338) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.change.RecentChangesPoller.nextBatch(RecentChangesPoller.java:167) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.change.RecentChangesPoller.nextBatch(RecentChangesPoller.java:38) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.Updater.nextBatch(Updater.java:371) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.Updater.run(Updater.java:163) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.Update.run(Update.java:174) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.Update.main(Update.java:98) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null') Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at [Source: (org.apache.http.conn.EofSensorInputStream); line: 1, column: 2] Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser._constructError(JsonParser.java:1804) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase._reportError(ParserMinimalBase.java:693) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase._reportUnexpectedChar(ParserMinimalBase.java:591) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser._handleUnexpectedValue(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:2630) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser._nextTokenNotInObject(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:832) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.UTF8StreamJsonParser.nextToken(UTF8StreamJsonParser.java:729) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._initForReading(ObjectMapper.java:4141) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:4000) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3070) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.wikibase.WikibaseRepository.getJson(WikibaseRepository.java:526) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at org.wikidata.query.rdf.tool.wikibase.WikibaseRepository.fetchRecentChanges(WikibaseRepository.java:350) Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: ... 10 common frames omitted Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, 'true', 'false' or 'null') Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 wdqs-updater[12116]: at [Source: (org.apache.http.conn.EofSensorInputStream); line: 1, column: 2] Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 systemd[1]: wdqs-updater.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 systemd[1]: wdqs-updater.service: Unit entered failed state. Oct 20 20:27:13 wdqs1008 systemd[1]: wdqs-updater.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.