On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 15:18 +0800, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote: > It's not predictable. But each machine that has failed has had aether as > it's primary LDAP server rather than aer. > > We can go weeks without seeing the problem and then have several machines > effected within a few days. > > We usually only see one machine fail a day but we only have a handful of EL5 > machines (EL5 is affected only that I can see).
>From the gdb trace it looks like the lookup context is getting clobbered but I can't see any way that can happen. But I do see that I don't have any locking on the servers list which I'm still trying to understand how I could have possibly done. That's really dumb. So maybe the servers list is becoming corrupt sometime before the HUP signal. I can sent a patch to add that locking if your willing test it. > > CC > > ________________________________ > > From: Ian Kent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 7/21/2008 12:30 PM > To: Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [autofs] Autofs doesn't look at second LDAP server > > > > > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 09:20 +0800, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I've noticed that, after a period of stability, autofs is dumping core > > again. > > > > The common thread is the time the core dumping happens, 4AM (give or > > take a few minutes) which is when our 'cron daily' process runs. This > > 'cron daily' lives on an NFS mount that is in the auto_global map > > ('/nfs/appl server:/vol/oldserver_appl'). > > Are you able to duplicate this? > IOW, does it happen predicatably? > > Ian > > > > > > NOTICE: This email and any attachments are confidential. > They may contain legally privileged information or > copyright material. You must not read, copy, use or > disclose them without authorisation. If you are not an > intended recipient, please contact us at once by return > email and then delete both messages and all attachments. > _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
