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
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> http://ben.hartshorne.net
> 
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