Status transition applied automatically due to the start of a time tracker.

If the machine is unexpectedly restarted without a proper stopping the Tigase server, it does not start. Apparently it finds the pid file and skips starting up. A solution would be to check whether there is a process under this pid (unreliable, there might be another process with this pid) or save the pid file in a location where pids of other programs are saved. This directory is cleaned up by the system on the startup.

right now by default pidfile will be saved to /var/run

a few pointers regarding scripts - [[Linux file limits and init scripts]]