Re: cfagent hangs

[Jeff Wasilko]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:02:02PM +0100, Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> 
> Version? 

Ahh, sorry about that. 2.0.8p1

-j

> 
> On 24 Nov, Jeff Wasilko wrote:
> > Hi:
> > 
> > I've been having problems with cfagent hanging for multiple days.
> > It's usually started by some sort of network problem (we've had a
> > bit of instability here that we've traced down to a failing gigE
> > switch).
> > 
> > cfagent is started by cfexecd. Is there any way to get cfexec to
> > kill the wedged cfagent?
> > 
> > lexx 7 ># ps -ef | grep cfagent
> >     root 17435   375  0   Nov 22 ?     0:04 
> > /is/local/state/cfengine/bin/cfagent
> > 
> > lexx 8 ># truss -p 17435
> > recv(8, 0xFFBF2618, 8, 0)       (sleeping...)
> > 
> > It seems to be hung in a copy of a big tree (pushing out our
> > /usr/local equivilent):
> > 
> > This is the mail I got from cfengine when I killed the hung
> > cfagent:
> > 
> > cfengine:lexx: Received signal 15 (SIGTERM) while doing
> > [lock.cfagent_conf.lexx.copy._is_dist_pkg__is_dist_pkg]
> > cfengine:lexx: Logical start time Sat Nov 22 16:20:34 2003
> > cfengine:lexx: This sub-task started really at Sat Nov 22 16:20:34 2003
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Help-cfengine mailing list
> > Help-cfengine@gnu.org
> > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
> 
> 
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