Re: Cfagent dumps core on trustkey=true for solaris 9...

[Anne Cross]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:37:42PM +0200, Mark Burgess wrote:

> Please upgrade to the latest snapshot at www.cfengine.org where
> this problem is fixed.

Is there any chance of just getting the patch without having to go all 
the way to the alpha release of 2.1.15?

        -- Anne

> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 11:05 -0400, Anne Cross wrote:
> > I'm running solaris 9 on a sparc processor, and I've got a single config 
> > that's set up to just connect and get the latest update.conf after a 
> > jumpstart.
> > 
> > We've compiled 2.1.14 into a package against db 4.2.37 using gcc 3.4.3,
> > and the software is, in fact, connecting correctly to get the key -
> > however, right after it copies the key down, cfagent dumps core.  The
> > file does not transfer.
> > 
> > Once the key has successfully been copied, a re-run of the config works 
> > just fine.
> > 
> > I can send the core file to anyone who knows better than I how to make 
> > use of it - debugging core files is not an area of expertise that I 
> > claim.
> > 
> > Here's the relevant chunks of config:
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > control:
> >       CFMaster = ( cfd.usg.tufts.edu )
> >       myconfigdir = ( /var/cfengine/inputs/ )
> >       mysourcedir = ( /local/cfengine/cf2/ )
> >   
> >       actionsequence = ( copy )
> > 
> > ##########################################################################
> >   
> > copy:
> >   
> >      $(mysourcedir)update.conf
> >         dest=$(myconfigdir)update.conf server=$(CFMaster) trustkey=true
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Is anyone else experiencing this problem?  And can anyone offer a 
> > suggestion on what to do about it?  Given that cfengine is pretty 
> > central to our infrastructure, we'd really rather it not be dumping core 
> > all over the place.
> > 
> >     -- Anne
> > 
> > Anne Cross
> > Systems Administrator, Tufts University
> > "The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into
> >        madness." -Christopher Morley
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Anne Cross
Systems Administrator, Tufts University
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into
       madness." -Christopher Morley