Bernard, I wasn't totally clear in my initial message - the problem occurs for me even after zero-ing the lastlog file. And if I straight-out delete the lastlog file, it hangs on the next file, whatever that may be.
-ben On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:40:35PM -0800, Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Drew: > > I think Ben hit it with a nail there... on a Red Hat 64-bit machine > (not confirmed on other 64-bit OSes...) the /var/log/lastlog is > huge... this apparently is a known bug with the OS and I am not sure > if it is fixed yet. Anyways, in OSCAR, we fixed it by zeroing the > file - take a look at the following bug we filed for OSCAR: > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=9368&atid=109368&func=detail&aid=1266306 > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Drew Weaver > Sent: Thu 09/03/2006 11:25 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Anyone know why si_getimage would fail on Fedora > Core 4 x64? > > It only does it on FC4_64 to me, every other OS completes fine, and I > mean every other OS lol > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben > Hartshorne > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Anyone know why si_getimage would fail on > Fedora Core 4 x64? > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:39:40PM -0500, Drew Weaver wrote: > > There aren't any, it literally hangs after it copies the last file in > > the /var/log directory forever. > > Drew, > > I think I see something similar, but mine hangs before getting to the > last file. It always hangs at the same place. If I stop it and then > run it again, it goes to completion. > > I see the failure when doing a massive re-image (for example, dumping a > FC4 over FC3 or dumping a CentOS image on a Fedora server, etc.) and > assumed that it had something to do with deleting the files that the > program is using to run, but I havn't been able to track it down either. > > More details on the symptoms: > Before the hang, disk activity and processor are both high (I'm going > through ssh). After the hang, disk and CPU both drop to 100% idle. It > doesn't time out (up to several hours). processes appear to be fine > (not zombied or in some other way spinning). If you delete the file at > which it hangs, it hangs at the next one. the file mine was hanging on > was /var/log/lastlog (hangs there even when the file is 0 bytes) or > /var/log/dmesg (after I deleted a bunch of log files). There isn't > anything particularyl interesting (large size or whatnot) about either > the file that came before it or the file I guess will come after it. > > For me, at least, the problem only seems to occur when I completely > re-image the machine, and does not occur on incremental updates. > > ::sigh:: > > -ben > > > > > > > > > -Drew > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Bernard > > Li > > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:28 PM > > To: [email protected]; > > [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Anyone know why si_getimage would fail on > > Fedora Core 4 x64? > > > > > > > > It would help if you provide more error messages for us to > troubleshoot > > the issue. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Drew > Weaver > > Sent: Wed 08/03/2006 18:41 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Sisuite-users] Anyone know why si_getimage would fail on > > Fedora Core 4 x64? > > > > It dies after rsync copies the last file to the server > from > > the client. The client is fully updated im running 3.6.2 > > > > > > > > -Drew > > > > > > > > -- > Ben Hartshorne > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ben.hartshorne.net > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=k&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 > _______________________________________________ > Sisuite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > -- Ben Hartshorne email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.hartshorne.net
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