Re: Two Simple Questions

Sorry about the csa_halt bug. It has been identified and fixed.
We know that bug had nothing to do with the ja problem you mentioned.

To get around the csa_halt problem, please just recycle the csa
by doing "/etc/init.d/csa stop; /etc/init.d/csa start".

Thanks,
  - jay


Andrew Fant wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Friday, October 15, 2004 12:42:54 -0500 Robin Holt <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Nope, there must be something else going on.  We would need to know
>> a lot more to help you.  I guess we would need to start with kernel
>> version and patches, job and csa userland versions, glibc version,
>> and compiler version.
>>
>> It will probably be easier to get a core dump and just issue 'where'.
>> That will probably be the best information.
> 
> 
> Robin:
>     I do have job and csa set to run at boot-time, the pam.d files have 
> been modified, jobtest runs successfully, and jstat does return a jid 
> when I log in.  I installed job and csa from sources, not from the rpm.
> 
> Oddly, I have just discovered a second error mode:
> 
> chicken04 root # /usr/sbin/csaswitch -c halt
> /proc/csa ioctl failure, command='csa_halt'
>   System Error(14): Bad address.
> Unable to halt system accounting.
>   System Error(14): Bad address.
> 
> As for system specs, I have reproduced the error with both a vanilla 
> un-patched 2.4.26 kernel and the patched gentoo-sources 2.4.26 kernel. 
> Glibc is 2.3.3. gcc is version 3.3.3.  I am using job 1.4 and csa 
> userland 2.2.0.  For pagg and job I am using the 2.4.26-4 patches.
> 
> Thanks for your help so far.  If there is anything else you want to 
> know, please let me know.
> 
> Andy