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RE: cfenvd dumping core
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PAUL WILLIAMSON |
Subject: |
RE: cfenvd dumping core |
Date: |
Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:55:21 -0400 |
It could be berkely. I may just end up blowing everything away
and starting over from scratch, keeping only the conf files
and actual executables...
Paul
>>> "Mark Burgess" <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> 06/02/05 3:36 PM >>>
This is a possible explanation for the problem. One might also try
downloading the latest snapshot from www.cfengine.org where a few
patches are applied.
Certainly I cannot understand why cfenvd should cause cfexecd to
crash.
They are utterly independent. The only conceivable link between them
is
Berkeley DB.
Mark
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:07 -0400, Luke Youngblood wrote:
> Have you used two or more different compiled binaries on the same
box
> without deleting DB files in between runs?
>
> Initially, I was using the 2.1.13 version of Cfengine from
SunFreeware. I
> decided to switch to Blastwave's version of 2.1.14, which is
compiled
> against a different version of BerkeleyDB.
>
> What I found was that Cfagent and Cfenvd were throwing lots of
errors
> related to database issues. Cfenvd would core dump every time I
started it.
>
> In order to resolve these issues, I removed all of the databases
that
> Cfagent and Cfenvd were complaining about (run cfagent -v), then let
cfagent
> recreate them on its next run. I didn't have any problems after
that.
>
> Just to be sure and cleanup properly, you might first kill cfenvd
and
> cfservd, then nuke everything under /var/cfengine, and perform a run
of
> cfagent again. This should reinitialize all the databases and
everything
> should work fine from then on.
>
> It seems that different versions of BerkeleyDB create files that are
> slightly different in format.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Luke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: help-cfengine-bounces+lyoungblood=phonechargeinc.com@gnu.org
> [mailto:help-cfengine-bounces+lyoungblood=phonechargeinc.com@gnu.org]
On
> Behalf Of PAUL WILLIAMSON
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 2:26 PM
> To: Darryl.Baker@gedas.com; help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: cfenvd dumping core
>
> I have almost the same situation. Although I get a decent core
> almost all the time. I have both binaries I've compiled (with the
> same versions of tools as you, but only sol8) and ones from
> someone on the list. Either way, running remotely always
> cores out cfexec or cfagent.
>
> Paul
>
> >>> "Baker, Darryl" <Darryl.Baker@gedas.com> 06/02/05 1:51 PM >>>
> Gentlefolk,
> I'm having a problem where cfenvd is Seg faulting and sometimes
> taking cfexecd with it though I don't get a core from cfexecd. It
> doesn't
> happen with any consistency or pattern. Some machines will have it
> happen
> every other day others it will happen once a week. I have 134
machines
> and I
> can go 16 hours without a failure and then have 5 fail in the next 4
> hours.
>
> This is with 2.1.14 on Solaris 8 and 9 boxes compiled with gcc 3.3.2
> and
> linked with OpenSSL 0.9.7. The same version of OpenSSL is on all
> machines.
>
>
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- cfenvd dumping core, Baker, Darryl, 2005/06/02
- Re: cfenvd dumping core, PAUL WILLIAMSON, 2005/06/02
- RE: cfenvd dumping core,
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- RE: cfenvd dumping core, PAUL WILLIAMSON, 2005/06/02
- RE: cfenvd dumping core, Baker, Darryl, 2005/06/02
- RE: cfenvd dumping core, Baker, Darryl, 2005/06/02
- RE: cfenvd dumping core, PAUL WILLIAMSON, 2005/06/03
- RE: cfenvd dumping core, Baker, Darryl, 2005/06/03
- RE: cfenvd dumping core, Baker, Darryl, 2005/06/22