Re: Constant core dumps...

I'm just writing to report success with Oliver Jehle's patch to eliminate
coredumps.

I'm running failsafe CVS from oss.sgi.com dated yesterday on top of Red
Hat Linux 7.2 (no updates, retail release).
--
Michael

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, [email protected] wrote:

>
>
> >From: [email protected]
> >Date: 04/08/2002 03:26:28 PM
> >Subject: Re: [LinuxFailSafe] Constant core dumps...
> >
> >On 2002-04-08T11:23:11,
> >   [email protected] said:
> >
> >> I was trying to install the SuSE RPMs this weekend in a similar system,
> RH
> >> 7.1, but 2.4.18. Of course the post-install scripts failed w.r.t.,
> xinetd,
> >> but hopefully I got that cleaned up manually.
> >>
> >> I didn't get as far as getting core dumps, since there was a problem
> with
> >> SuSE specific stuff in the startup scripts
> >> (`/etc/rc.d/init.d/{failsafe|fs_cluster}, notably calls to functions in
> >> `rc.status'. Can I just remove calls to `rc_reset', etc. without any
> >> problem? Or, should I try to get hold of `rc.status'?
> >
> >You can uncomment them, I am pretty sure. They do some nice printing of
> error
> >messages etc and are part of the SuSE environment.
>
> OK.
>
> >> Are there other issues with using the SuSE RPMs on RH 7.1?
> >
> >I wouldn't know ;-)
>
> Given what you said above and that I'm using glibc 2.2.2, I'll push ahead
> and try once more.
>
> (Funny how asking for support from one company for problems concerning a
> competing product raises eyebrows. I do understand... ;-)
>
> >> Has anyone succeeded in using those binary SuSE RPMs? Does everyone get
> >> core dumps?
> >
> >The core dumps are related to the threading/RPC change glibc 2.2.4. You
> also
> >get them on SuSE 7.3 for now, until I pushed out the fixed RPMs, which
> will
> >happen this week.
>
> Silly me, I didn't see that he had updated his glibc to 2.2.4... AFAIR, RH
> 7.1 uses 2.2.2.
>
> >> If so, is the way forward to use the CVS version, SuSE SRPMs, or simply
> get
> >> hold of SuSE 7.2?
> >
> >Well, obviously I am biased, but the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 works
> well
> >with FailSafe.
>
> Any particular version?
>
> >Immortality is an adequate definition of high availability for me.
>
> So, how do you define continous availability -- "immortal and always
> awake"?
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
>
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