Re: cfservd coredumps

[Mark . Burgess]

Please try 2.0.4pre from www.cfengine.org, and let me know if it
helps.

Mark


On 19 Aug, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've found away of reliably making cfservd coredump.
> 
> I have two hosts, let's call them master and slave. I use master to push 
> out a current hosts file to slave, so I have a file that looks like this
> 
> 1.2.3.4 master
> 1.2.3.5 slave
> 
> I change the IP of slave to 1.2.3.6  AND I change the hosts file on master 
> to reflect the change, fully expecting cfengine to push out the new 
> configuration. The result is cfservd coredumping.  I'm sorry I have to 
> anonymise the error, but please assume that xxxxx is the slave and yyyyy is 
> the master.
> 
> ----------------------------------
> New connection...(from ::ffff:10.4.16.63)
> Spawning new thread...
> Checking file updates on /var/cfengine/inputs/cfservd.conf (3d490559/3d613025)
> RecvSocketStream(8)
>      (Concatenated 8 from stream)
> Transaction Receive [t 54][]
> RecvSocketStream(54)
>      (Concatenated 54 from stream)
> Received: [CAUTH 10.4.16.63 xxxxx root 0] on socket 7
> Connecting host identifies itself as 10.4.16.63 xxxxx root 0
> (ipstring=[10.4.16.63],fqname=[xxxxx],username=[root],socket=[::ffff:10.4.16.63])
> FuzzyItemIn(10.4.16.63)
> Socket caller address appears honest (10.4.16.63 matches 10.4.16.63)
> yyyyy: Socket originates from 10.4.16.63=xxxxx
> Attempting to look up hostname (xxxxx)
> yyyyy: Unable to lookup xxxxx
> yyyyy: getaddrinfo: Undefined error: 0
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> To fix this, I need to remove the stale entry from the slave's host file, 
> restart cfservd then run cfagent on the client (or wait from the cron job. 
> The hosts file then replicates as normal.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Martin A. Brooks
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