Re: more cfagent during kickstart woes

[Ed Brown]

We've seen this too, but not consistently, and with no discernible
pattern, except that it is fairly recent (2.1.6 and later?). 

For whatever reason, it has not re-occurred since I split the cfagent
call into two calls (in %post):
cfagent -qv -f update.conf
cfagent -qv 

-Ed


On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 12:37, Lars Damerow wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Thanks for the advice--I've been using the shell on console 2 for a while in
> the hopes of getting a gdb session attached to cfengine, but haven't gotten
> very far. When it's hung, strace doesn't show anything interesting, so I 
> assume
> it's not making any syscalls.
> 
> Ed--switching virtual consoles and redirecting the output is a great idea! I
> just did that, set cfengine to verbose and debugging mode, and the last few
> lines it outputs before segfaulting (it gets a segmentation fault now) are:
> 
> Appending [ipv4_13_72]
> AddClassToHeap(ipv4_138)
> Appending [ipv4_138]
> Trying to locate my IPv6 address
> cfpopen(/sbin/ifconfig -a)
> 
> ...and then it segfaults. Perhaps I need to disable IPv6 during kickstart..?
> 
> cheers,
> lars
> 
> >From Ed Brown <ebrown@lanl.gov>, Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:53:10AM -0600:
> > Good advice, especially if cfagent is hanging within kickstart.  If you
> > switch to alt+F2, do 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' to get to the same
> > environment that commands in %post (by default) run in.  
> > 
> > -Ed
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:32, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> > > Hi Lars, I haven't seen this problem and I have used cfengine in my
> > > kickstart scripts for both FC1 and FC2.  What I would recommend is that 
> > > you
> > > have kickstart run cfengine in verbose mode (maybe even debug?).  Then, 
> > > you
> > > can watch the output on one of the install screens (ctrl+alt+F3 I think).
> > > Hopefully that will help you track down the problem.  If not, you can 
> > > access
> > > the shell (ctrl+alt+F2 during install), and do an strace or similar on the
> > > cfengine process to see what is up.
> > > 
> > > -Jeff
> 
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