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

[Mark Burgess]

You can get it from the subversion sources and make a diff.

But, alpha releases do not imply any less stability than full releases.
This is simply a naming convention that I use until I am ready to
release a significant new version

M

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 13:34 -0400, Anne Cross wrote:
> 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
>