Re: Null filename on YellowDog

[Mark Burgess]

Are you mixing versions? What kind of version are you running? It used
to be possible for this to happen nuder odd circumstances. Also make
sure that the version you are running was compiled on YellowDog --
perhaps there are library compatabilty issues.

M

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 09:25 -0600, Chris St. Pierre wrote:
> I apologize for cross-posting, but I'm talking to myself on the
> newsgroup. :)
> 
> I'm in the process of bringing Cfengine up on a number of diverse 
> hosts.  It's working fine on most of them, but it's not working on our 
> two YellowDog Linux (PPC) machines.  When I try to run cfagent on the 
> client ("students"), I get this: 
> 
> # cfagent -v 
> [...snip...] 
> cfengine:: Strong authentication of server=lewis connection confirmed 
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf wasn't at destination 
> (copying) 
> cfengine:: Copying from lewis: 
> 
> It hangs at this point until I C-c it, which gives me: 
> 
> cfengine:: Received signal 2 (SIGINT) while doing [pre-lock-state] 
> cfengine:: Logical start time Thu Feb 23 08:06:08 2006 
> cfengine:: This sub-task started really at Thu Feb 23 08:06:08 2006 
> 
> Starting the server ("lewis") with -d2 gives me the following output: 
> 
> [...snip...] 
> cfservd: Host students.nebrwesleyan.edu granted access to 
> /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf 
> Clocks were off by 0 
> StatFile(/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf) 
> OK: type=0 
>  mode=644 
>  lmode=0 
>  uid=0 
>  gid=0 
>  size=5162 
>  atime=1140703206 
>  mtime=1140646941 
> Transaction Send[t 68][Packed text] 
> Attempting to send 76 bytes 
> SendSocketStream, sent 76 
> Transaction Send[t 3][Packed text] 
> Attempting to send 11 bytes 
> SendSocketStream, sent 11 
> RecvSocketStream(8) 
>     (Concatenated 8 from stream) 
> Transaction Receive [t 9][] 
> RecvSocketStream(9) 
>     (Concatenated 9 from stream) 
> Received: [GET 2048 ] on socket 5 
> AccessControl() 
> cfservd: Couldn't stat filename  from host students.nebrwesleyan.edu 
> 
> cfservd: lstatcfservd: Host authorization/authentication failed or 
> access denied 
> Transaction Send[t 114][Packed text] 
> Attempting to send 122 bytes 
> SendSocketStream, sent 122 
> cfservd: From 
> (host=students.nebrwesleyan.edu,user=root,ip=::ffff:10.12.1.6) 
> RecvSocketStream(8) 
> Transmission empty or timed out... 
> Transaction Receive [][] 
> RecvSocketStream(0) 
> cfservd terminating NULL transmission! 
> Terminating thread... 
> ***Closing socket 5 from ::ffff:10.12.1.6 
> 
> Note that there are two spaces between "stat filename" and "from
> host".  The problem is that the file to transfer is not getting set
> properly at one end or the other; running "cfagent -v -d2" on the
> client gives the following:
> 
> [...snip...] 
> ImageCopy(/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf,/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf,+700,-7077)
>  
> ExpandVarstring(lewis) 
> IgnoredOrExcluded() 
> file /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf class any was not excluded 
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf wasn't at destination 
> (copying) 
> cfengine:: Copying from lewis: 
> CopyReg(,/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf) 
> This is a remote copy from server: lewis 
> Transaction Send[t 9][Packed text] 
> Attempting to send 17 bytes 
> SendSocketStream, sent 17 
> RecvSocketStream(2048) 
>     (Concatenated 122 from stream) 
> 
> That's the point where it freezes.  For some reason, one of the 
> arguments to CopyReg is null.  Given that Cfengine is running just
> fine on eight other machines with the same exact update.conf file, I'm
> thinking that this might be a bug with Cfengine on YellowDog Linux.
> Is anyone out there running Cfengine on YDL?  Does anyone have any
> ideas about how to solve my problem?  I looked through the code, but
> I'm not a C hacker, so I got lost pretty fast.  Thanks for your help!
> 
> Chris St. Pierre
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Nebraska Wesleyan University
> 
> 
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