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Re: [Gluster-devel] 2.0.0rc4 (and rc5) locks up when used as root


From: Harshavardhana
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] 2.0.0rc4 (and rc5) locks up when used as root
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:57:38 +0530

Gordan,

    were the permissions changed being over replicate by any chance?. can you write an additional script to check for the permission of files or atleast have a dump to compare permissions over replicate and without it.
 
Regards
--
Harshavardhana
"Yantra Shilpi"
Z Research Inc - http://www.zresearch.com



On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:46 PM, Gordan Bobic <address@hidden> wrote:
As suspected, chmod -x /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules fixes the immediate problem. It would appear things like:


for file in /etc/sysconfig/modules/*.modules ; do
 [ -x $file ] && $file
done

seem to cause it to lock up.

Unfortunately, that sort of thing happens all over the place in the boot scripts, and now it locks up a few steps later. The last version this worked with was rc2 (possibly rc3, I haven't tested it). It's definitely not working on rc4 and rc5.

Gordan


Gordan Bobic wrote:
Anand Avati wrote:
It looks like it locks up when used as root (afr/replicate) at the point
where it initially starts up udev (not 100% sure where exactly yet, will
have to put some trace code in rc.sysinit).

2.0.0rc2 didn't have this problem.


Can you try rc5? Though still it is still under QA, you might want to
give it a try since some transport related code changes have gone it
which might be the reason for your lockup.

The lock-up still occurs with rc5.

I've done some more digging, however. It appears to die at this pint in rc.sysinit, between debug 3 and debug 4:

#################
echo "debug 3"
# Load other user-defined modules
for file in /etc/sysconfig/modules/*.modules ; do
 [ -x $file ] && $file
done

# Load modules (for backward compatibility with VARs)
if [ -f /etc/rc.modules ]; then
       /etc/rc.modules
fi
echo "debug 4"
#################

There is no rc.modules file, so contents of that can be ruled out.

# ls -l /etc/sysconfig/modules/
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100 May 25  2008 udev-stw.modules

# cat /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules
#!/bin/sh
for i in nvram floppy parport lp snd-powermac;do
       modprobe $i >/dev/null 2>&1
done

I have just rebuilt my initrds separately with rc2 and rc5. rc2 works fine, rc5 fails. No other changes to the system between the two attempts.

Oh, and the first access failure bug is still there.

I couldn't test for the memory leak in rc5 since I couldn't get it to boot due to the lock-up mentioned above.

I'll try disabling those modules listed above since I don't need them on this setup, but I can confirm that modprobe itself works fine. So it sounds like a problem/bug elsewhere. Possibly a buffer-overrun somewhere that gets triggered by rc4/rc5.

BTW, in case it's relevant, I'm using the fuse kernel module from 2.6.24.7, rather than the one from the patched package, because the one in the kernel appears to be later. Can anyone confirm if there are any known problems with this? Is there any strong reason why I should use a different kernel module (e.g. one from the patched fuse 2.7.4 package)?

Gordan


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