On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:13 -0500, Eric Dorland wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 20:27 +0100, Mark Burgess wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 14:10 -0500, Eric Dorland wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 09:13 +0100, Mark Burgess wrote: > > > > Is this error reproducible? Could you get a cfagent -d0 -p dump? Is this > > > > a recent version of cfengine? > > > > > > It is not really reproducible. I see it a few times a day from random > > > machines, but there's no real pattern to when it happens. Eric Sorenson > > > seems to think it's a threading issue (which makes sense, given the > > > somewhat random nature of this bug), so I'm going to try to build > > > without threading as soon as I figure out how to do that. > > > > > > > Eric, please heed the following advice and answer the following > > questions to let me help you: > > > > 1) Does the error come from cfservd or cfagent or where? > > 2) If the error comes from cfagent, you are wasting your time disabling > > threading. Cfagent does not use threading, This will simply be a waste > > of your time. > > 3) Tell me what version you are using and describe the error clearly and > > precisely in every detail. I need to see the offending lines of the > > config file in particular, > > Of course Mark, I'm sorry if I wasn't clear before and missing > information. I'm using cfengine 2.1.13 on RHEL 3 systems, patched by > hand to remove that SIGCHLD line (only thing I touched, I swear). The > errors always look something like this: > > cf:cfengine::/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf:2: Bracket mismatch, in > [class=(], level = 1 > cfengine::/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf:Aborted > > or > > cf:cfengine::/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf:2: Bracket mismatch, in > [class=Ø(], level = 1 > cfengine::/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf:Aborted > > The only thing that varies is the text after class= . It seems to always > contain a open or close parentheses, and sometimes a character > proceeding it. > > I get this error through reports emailed to me through cfexecd, ie this > is cfagent run through cfexecd. I've never seen this problem running > cfagent by hand, but it's not very common that I would do that. It seems > to happen at random times on random machines, but it happens on everyone > of my machines (not necessarily everyday, but often enough). > > Attached is my entire cfagent.conf file, if that helps. The line 2 it's > referring to is merely "groups:" so I don't think it's the problem. > > Thanks for any and all help. > > > Without this info, I simply have no context in which to guess where you > > error is occurring, I would like to help. but I need info. > > > > best wishes > > Mark > >
My guess is that this is caused by an unitialized buffer. Please try the following patch: http://svn.iu.hio.no/viewcvs/trunk/src/parse.c?rev=53&r1=35&r2=53 _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
