It is odd that the problem has been solved for some people but not for others.
Bernard Chan wrote: > Hi Brett, > > Well, our cases are really quite different. For the shell commands that > I happen to run, > I have always had ">/dev/null 2>&1" on the command line even though I > have not visited > the link you mentioned, because I have encountered problems some time > last year when > I first experimented with cfengine without the redirection. That was > when I was still running > v2.2.1 and certainly the current set of configuration has been good for > all the 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 > hosts running for many months now. It was just recently that a teammate > was required to > set up a few new servers from scratch and he put 2.2.6 on them and we > started to see all of these errors coming up not knowing why. > > Even though our site setup is a bit complex with servers installed at > different parts of the > world thus necessitating two levels of cfservd for geographical locality > concern, I think > the configuration is pretty simple and straightforward overall with > mostly copy (that was > the primary reason I wanted to use cfengine in the first place). > > Well, to re-confirm I restarted cfexecd on one of the servers running > 2.2.7 that showed MAXFD > errors this afternoon. And right now, before I am going to bed, defunct > children are seen > again and the first MAXFD log appeared again about 4 hours after I did > the restart. Weird? > > Regards, > Bernard Chan. > > Brett Delle Grazie 提到: >> Hi Mark & Bernard, >> >> I had a similar issue when I upgraded to 2.2.7 however in my case this was >> due to: >> (a) The RPM packager definitions leaked file descriptors: >> Initially (leaks descriptors for some reason): >> RPMInstallCommand = ( "/usr/bin/yum -y install %s" ) >> RPMRemoveCommand = ( "/usr/bin/yum -t -y remove %s" ) >> >> Final (doesn't leak): >> RPMInstallCommand = ( "/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install %s 2<&-" ) >> RPMRemoveCommand = ( "/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y remove %s 2<&-" ) >> >> (b) Shellcommands and process restarts: >> I followed the advice of >> http://www.cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Hung_Shell_Command >> >> and this resolved my issues. >> >> In my case, all of my file descriptors were due to the Yum command. >> >> I'm using RHEL 5.2 on AMD64 >> >> Thanks, >> >> Best regards, >> >> Brett >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bernard Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 3:21 AM >> To: Mark Burgess >> Cc: help-cfengine; bug-cfengine >> Subject: Re: Version 2.2.7 of cfengine released >> >> >> Dear Mark and everybody on the list, >> >> I have upgraded our v2.2.6 systems to v2.2.7 but still got the MAXFD errors. >> Would anyone help? >> >> I found these in /var/log/messages. >> >> Jun 16 00:30:47 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: Couldn't open pipe to >> command /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -Dfrom_cfexecd:scheduled_run Jun 16 >> 00:30:47 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: cfpopen: Illegal seek Jun 16 >> 01:00:47 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: File descriptor 145 of child >> 30069 higher than MAXFD, check for defunct children Jun 16 01:00:47 >> asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: Couldn't open pipe to command >> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -Dfrom_cfexecd:scheduled_run Jun 16 01:00:47 >> asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: cfpopen: Illegal seek Jun 16 01:30:48 >> asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: File descriptor 146 of child 31065 higher >> than MAXFD, check for defunct children Jun 16 01:30:48 asterisk102-32bit >> cfexecd[3361]: Couldn't open pipe to command /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent >> -Dfrom_cfexecd:scheduled_run Jun 16 01:30:48 asterisk102-32bit >> cfexecd[3361]: cfpopen: Illegal seek Jun 16 02:00:48 asterisk102-32bit >> cfexecd[3361]: File descriptor 147 of child 31994 higher than MAXFD, check for defunct children Jun 16 02:00:48 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: Couldn't open pipe to command /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -Dfrom_cfexecd:scheduled_run Jun 16 02:00:48 asterisk102-32bit cfexecd[3361]: cfpopen: Illegal seek >> >> and found the defunct children in ps -efww. >> >> The system being deployed is Linux i686. >> >> Regards, >> Bernard Chan. >> >> 於 三，2008-06-11 於 18:55 +0200，Mark Burgess 提到： >> >>> This is a minor bugfix release with no new features. It corrects a >>> threading error in cfexecd which caused hanging file descriptors. >>> >>> MD5 (cfengine-2.2.7.tar.gz)= 8ee6d6d58ba6eca649c199c6c7074a67 >>> SHA1(cfengine-2.2.7.tar.gz)= c96fd0c824a1b25fc1fd4720663cb1da89ad6025 >>> >>> The aim is that this version should remain stable for the foreseeable >>> future. Hopefully the next release will be 3.0.0 >>> >>> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. >> For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-cfengine mailing list > [email protected] > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine -- Mark Burgess Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Tlf: +47 22453272 _______________________________________________ Bug-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cfengine
