Re: defunct ifconfig

[Mark . Burgess]

I'm afraid that I do not understand why this is happening. Any further
investigative info would be appreciated

M

On  1 Jun, gnu@cjs226.com wrote:
> Is there a fix for this?  I'm running into it using cfengine v2.1.6-1.
> 
> cjs
> 
> 
>>Well the change that has occurred in cfengine is that it tries
>>to find an ipv6 address using ifconfig. As to why it hangs, I
>>am not sure...
>>
>>M
>>
>>On 30 Apr, Lance Albertson wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I'm having a couple of strange problems lately with cfengine that I
>>> think could be related. It seems that cfagent is somehow making a
>>> defunct ifconfig process that just lingers. Along with this, there seems
>>> to be multiple cfexecd/cfagent processes that also seem to linger. Below
>>> is some of the ps output for the machine. This has just recently been
>>> happening and I don't think I've changed anything lately to make this
>>> happen. The only major thing is I've upgraded cfengine to 2.1.5 lately.
>>>
>>> root     28747  0.0  0.1 11644 3836 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>> /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd
>>> root     22480  0.0  0.2  5556 4484 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
>>> root     13753  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr30   0:00 [ifconfig]
>>> <defunct>
>>> root     10738  0.0  0.0  1688 1284 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>/USR/SBIN/CRON
>>> root     31714  0.0  0.1  4736 2176 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>> /usr/sbin/cfexecd -F
>>> root     17319  0.0  0.2  5588 4540 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
>>> root      2979  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr30   0:00 [ifconfig]
>>> <defunct>
>>> root     19072  0.0  0.1 11644 3836 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>> /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd
>>> root     31005  0.0  0.2  5532 4484 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
>>> root     13333  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr30   0:00 [ifconfig]
>>> <defunct>
>>> root      1560  0.0  0.0  1688 1284 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>/USR/SBIN/CRON
>>> root     16453  0.0  0.1  4764 2176 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>> /usr/sbin/cfexecd -F
>>> root     13099  0.0  0.2  5748 5096 ?        S    Apr30   0:00
>>> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
>>> root     21605  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr30   0:00 [ifconfig]
>>> <defunct>
>>> root     14299  0.0  0.1 11644 3836 ?        S    00:00   0:00
>>> /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd
>>> root      3565  0.0  0.2  5736 4896 ?        S    00:00   0:00
>>> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
>>> root     12430  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    00:00   0:00 [ifconfig]
>>> <defunct>
>>>
>>> Sorry I don't have much other debug info, but I thought I'd at least see
>>> if any of you have encountered this before. There's not much info in the
>>> logs that I can see so far. Anyhelp would be great!
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
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