[address@hidden: Re: cfengine:: put failed]

[Russell Van Tassell]

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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:12:15 -0700
From: Russell Van Tassell <russell@loosenut.com>
To: Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no>
Cc: christian pearce <pearcec@perfectorder.com>,
        "help-cfengine@gnu.org" <help-cfengine@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: cfengine:: put failed
In-Reply-To: <1129905511.21882.61.camel@slogans.iu.hio.no>

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 04:38:31PM +0200, Mark Burgess wrote:
> Probably an error in db versioning. I have seen it a couple of time a
> long time ago. My impression is that some red hat libs are a bit out of
> date?? It's hard to say what the reason is,  but it seems to be an
> internal bug in db
> M

Just a note: I just hit this on Solaris 9 with CFEngine 2.1.15 linked
against Berkeley DB 3.3.11 (w/DB 1.8.5 compatibility turned on, IIRC).
Removing cfengine_lock_db allowed the client to start working again.

> > > > cfengine:: put failed
> > > > cfengine:: db->put: Unknown error
> > > >
> > > > cfengine:: Unable to lock
> > > > last.cfagent_conf..directories._var_cfengine_inputs___4662


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