Re: Version 2.2.7 of cfengine released

Mark Burgess <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.bugs,gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The thing that makes me ask is that this message has come much more 
quickly than I would have expected after upgrade. I am suprised you have 
managed to fill up 1000 file descriptors already. Have you really had 
1000 runs of cfexecd already?



Bernard Chan wrote:
> Dear Mark,
> 
> I'm certain that the old processes must be killed and restarted. That is
> because the servers needed to be rebooted (our site setup puts all
> of /usr in SquashFS and as a read-only FS to update it would require a
> system reboot). That will have cfexecd, cfservd and cfagent everything
> freshly started from the SquashFS. /var/log/messages also show that the
> system has already been restarted.
> 
> Because the server itself is for production use, I have instructed
> teammate to downgrade to v2.2.2 that was previously running fine.
> 
> Regards,
> Bernard Chan.
> 
> 於 一,2008-06-16 於 07:20 +0200,Mark Burgess 提到:
>> Hi Bernard,
>>
>> perhaps a silly question, but are you absolutely sure that the version 
>>   that is being run is 2.2.7? Have you killed any old processes?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Bernard Chan wrote:
>>> Dear Mark and everybody on the list,
>>>
>>> I have upgraded our v2.2.6 systems to v2.2.7 but still got the MAXFD
>>> errors. Would anyone help?
>>>
>>> I found these in /var/log/messages.
>>>
>>> Jun 16 00:30:47 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: Couldn't open pipe to
>>> command /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -Dfrom_cfexecd:scheduled_run
>>> Jun 16 00:30:47 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: cfpopen: Illegal seek
>>> Jun 16 01:00:47 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]:  File descriptor 145 of
>>> child 30069 higher than MAXFD, check for defunct children
>>> Jun 16 01:00:47 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: Couldn't open pipe to
>>> command /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -Dfrom_cfexecd:scheduled_run
>>> Jun 16 01:00:47 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: cfpopen: Illegal seek
>>> Jun 16 01:30:48 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]:  File descriptor 146 of
>>> child 31065 higher than MAXFD, check for defunct children
>>> Jun 16 01:30:48 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: Couldn't open pipe to
>>> command /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -Dfrom_cfexecd:scheduled_run
>>> Jun 16 01:30:48 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: cfpopen: Illegal seek
>>> Jun 16 02:00:48 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]:  File descriptor 147 of
>>> child 31994 higher than MAXFD, check for defunct children
>>> Jun 16 02:00:48 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: Couldn't open pipe to
>>> command /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -Dfrom_cfexecd:scheduled_run
>>> Jun 16 02:00:48 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: cfpopen: Illegal seek
>>>
>>> and found the defunct children in ps -efww.
>>>
>>> The system being deployed is Linux i686.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bernard Chan.
>>>
>>> 於 三,2008-06-11 於 18:55 +0200,Mark Burgess 提到:
>>>> This is a minor bugfix release with no new features. It corrects a 
>>>> threading error in cfexecd which caused hanging file descriptors.
>>>>
>>>> MD5 (cfengine-2.2.7.tar.gz)= 8ee6d6d58ba6eca649c199c6c7074a67
>>>> SHA1(cfengine-2.2.7.tar.gz)= c96fd0c824a1b25fc1fd4720663cb1da89ad6025
>>>>
>>>> The aim is that this version should remain stable for the foreseeable 
>>>> future. Hopefully the next release will be 3.0.0
>>>>
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