Re: HTTP admin restart issues

Hi.

Thank you for the feedback.

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 23:00 +0300, Nikos Balkanas wrote:

> 3. If bearerbox is in parachute mode and restarted for any reason,
> smsbox goes down and stays down. This is caused by failed heartbeats.
> It can be fixed by introducing a small delay witth retry in smsbox, if
> it realizes that bearerbox connectiuon is dropped.

Actually the cause is the closing of the bearerbox-connection, causing
read_from_bearerbox_real to return -1 and in turn the smsbox to
shutdown.


> (1) Could you please post panic logs?I don't think it is due to the
> pid file. In my experience web restart fails always, because it
> doesn't preserve the original location and execvp() can't find the
> executable. Solution is to save original launch directory (i.e.
> "/usr/local/bin") and then do a chdir() just before you call execvp.
> You see, after initialization, bearerbox runs from "/" and all
> relative paths are broken. This could include the pid file as well.

This is only the case when combined with --daemonize/-d. At any rate I
start Kannel absolute paths for all parameters (executable, pid-file,
configuration-file.

Here is the panic logs:

...
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] DEBUG: MO concatenated message handling
cleaned up
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] INFO: Total WDP messages: received 0,
sent 0
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] INFO: Total SMS messages: received 0, dlr
0, sent 0, dlr 0
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] DEBUG: Immutable octet strings: 257.
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] PANIC: Could not open pid-file
`/tmp/core.pid'
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] PANIC: System error 17: File exists
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] PANIC: ./gw/bearerbox(gw_panic+0xbd)
[0x80f1dcd]
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] PANIC: ./gw/bearerbox(get_and_set_debugs
+0xaeb) [0x80fe9cb]
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] PANIC: ./gw/bearerbox(main+0x87)
[0x80530a7]
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0]
PANIC: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7)
[0xb737be37]
2011-08-31 10:31:47 [3755] [0] PANIC: ./gw/bearerbox() [0x8052a41]



> (2). Same solution as in (3). Introduce a small delay to smsbox.
> However, for this you don't need to modify the sources, you can just
> delay it in the init script.

Yes, provided I just the parachute option and an init-script.

In my opinion it make little sense to provide a 'restart' command, when
in fact only the bearerbox is restarted and all other boxes simply shut
down. 

/Jacob


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