Updating to 2.1.19 fixed this problem. Thanks for your help!
Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Mark Burgess wrote:
>
>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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