sigpipes on solaris 8, reprise...

[Marco Marongiu]

Hello everybody

First of all, I would like to thank those that replied "offline" to my 
previous post and tried to help me solving the problem. Unfortunately, 
nothing has changed here :-(((((

Summing up, this is what happens.

I compiled cfengine 2.1.13 (and also tried a CVS snapshot) with both gcc 
3.4.2 and 3.0.4, against libpcre 5.0, OpenSSL and Berkeley db 4.3.27 and 
3.2.9+patches, on Solaris 8:

# uname -a
SunOS web-pre-se 5.8 Generic_117350-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Serverblade1

The application sigpipes and dies when it does a remote copy operation, 
with the message:

> *********************************************************************
>  Main Tree Sched: copy pass 1 @ Thu Mar 10 15:41:29 2005
> *********************************************************************
>
> Checking copy from ims-pre-se:/var/cfengine/repository/config/ntp.conf to 
> /etc/inet/ntp.conf
> Connect to ims-pre-se = 10.39.17.16, port =5308
> Updating last-seen time for ims-pre-se
> Loaded /var/cfengine/ppkeys/root-10.39.17.16.pub
> cfengine:web-pre-se: Received signal 13 (SIGPIPE) while doing [no_active_lock]
> cfengine:web-pre-se: Logical start time Thu Mar 10 15:41:29 2005
> cfengine:web-pre-se: This sub-task started really at Thu Mar 10 15:41:29 2005

An output of truss -o /tmp/cfagent.truss -f /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent is 
attached.

Besides, trying to see if I could solve the problem, I spotted a problem 
pattern.

If I do these, something happens (well, half of something).

1) stop "everything cf" running on both the policy host and client:
    pkill cf

2) remove the cf_lastseen.db on both the policy host and client:
    rm /var/cfengine/cf_lastseen.db

3) run cfagent on the policy host and let all the needed services come up
    /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -v

4) run cfagent on the client:
    /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -v | tee /tmp/cfagent.log

the copy from update.conf works, the copy from cfagent.conf and all 
subsequent attempts to run a copy from cfagent die.

If you run cfagent again this is what you see on the server side in the 
/var/adm/messages:

> Mar 10 16:00:10 ims-pre-se cfservd[19111]: [ID 823470 daemon.error]  Denying 
> repeated connection from ::ffff:10.39.17.40

So it looks like the policy host closes the connection while the client 
tries to read or write to it, and cfagent dies sigpipe...

Can anybody help?

Ciao and thanks
--Marco

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