Hm - sounds related. I updated the GZ to 20160411T120144Z, but the docker
container still exhibits the behaviour (unless there are other updates I
need to apply?)

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Jerry Jelinek <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It is possible that you are hitting https://smartos.org/bugview/OS-5311,
> which I just fixed on Friday. To summarize the problem:
>
> The bug is that the active contract template is only setup on the initial
> LWP in the process, so any time that LWP forks, the child will be in a
> different contract, as configured. However, if any other LWP initiates the
> fork, then that LWP has a NULL active contract template, so the child will
> be in the same contract.
>
> Due to the how we setup the application process for a Docker zone, if the
> application forks a child, it must be in a different contract. If it's not,
> then when the child exits, it will cause all of the other processes in the
> same contract to die and the zone will halt.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Nigel Magnay <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I have traced a little further
>>
>> Part of the maven build shells out to run git (via the plugin code at
>> [2]; the last lines of log show this before the mysterious death:
>>
>> [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd
>> '/home/jenkins/realtime/commons/csw-commons-utils' && 'git' 'rev-parse'
>> '--verify' 'HEAD'
>> [INFO] Working directory: /home/jenkins/realtime/commons/csw-commons-utils
>> [INFO] Storing buildNumber: a20f2793de8f449ff5c638479e73dab4a884936c at
>> timestamp: 1460376264112
>>
>> The output is showing that the git process returned (the info output
>> showing the returned info). However, in the dtrace log, I can see this:
>>
>> 937/1: lx_emulate(7fffff08eca0, 231, [8d, 0, 8d, ffffffffffffff90, 3c,
>> e7])
>> 937/1: lx_exit_common(LX_ET_EXIT_GROUP, 141)
>>
>> Which I'm assuming is the git process returning an error from exit(), and
>> googling around 141 seems to indicate a pipe being closed (e.g: [1])
>>
>> Sometimes the build does not die at that point - and the corresponding
>> part of the log did not show 141, but instead a 0
>>
>> 1264/1: lx_exit_common(LX_ET_EXIT_GROUP, 0)
>>
>> If I remove the part of the build that calls git, it completes
>> successfully, so it certainly seems to be related to this.
>>
>> What I don't really understand is why the child process exiting is
>> causing the parent to mysteriously exit - but not immediately ?
>>
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mksh/+bug/1532621
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/mojohaus/buildnumber-maven-plugin/blob/buildnumber-maven-plugin-1.3/src/main/java/org/codehaus/mojo/build/CreateMojo.java
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Nigel Magnay <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> So uname of the GZ is
>>> SunOS headnode 5.11 joyent_20160317T000105Z i86pc i386 i86pc
>>>
>>> The docker container is
>>> Linux ff4a058f3f5e 3.13.0 BrandZ virtual linux x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> I've attached the Dockerfile, though it's not that exciting. I seem to
>>> get failures quite often when the docker api chooses the HN to provision a
>>> node rather than a CN, but I'm not totally sure about that. I don't think
>>> it's running out of memory - vmstat in the GZ shows
>>>
>>> I've attached an output from the tail of truss on the GZ for the java
>>> process (bear in mind I know nothing currently about dtrace, but I will go
>>> away and try to read up) -  I assume though that I'll see segfaults as a
>>> natural product of the java memory management.
>>>
>>> The only thing that stands out to my eye in the trace is
>>> vforkx(0)                                       = 65788
>>>
>>> which seems an strange return value if I'm reading it correctly?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Nigel Magnay <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'll dig out the Dockerfile on monday - it's not particularly complex.
>>>>
>>>> Basically the (jenkins) build process asks triton to instantiate a
>>>> (java:8) docker image, the uses ssh to connect and invoke maven. I can
>>>> connect 'by hand' and also make it die - though it may be that it's only
>>>> doing this on some nodes.
>>>>
>>>> The most likely explanation is I've either misunderstood or
>>>> misconfigured something. There would seem to be enough free memory and swap
>>>> on the host whilst it's running, but might there be other limits
>>>> (processes?) that may have been breached causing it to be killed?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:20 PM, Elijah Zupancic <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Nigel,
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you please give us some additional information. Could you tell
>>>>> us the platform image version. You can find it by doing a uname -a or if
>>>>> you are within a docker container a /native/bin/uname -a
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, with regards to the Docker build process are you using Docker
>>>>> build with Triton or are you using Docker build with Linux Docker and then
>>>>> running the built image on Triton?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, if you Dockerfile isn't sensitive could you please share it with
>>>>> us? I can attempt to reproduce. Another way to narrow down problems is to
>>>>> try to run it in the Joyent public cloud and to see if it dies there.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Elijah
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Nigel Magnay <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi -
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've successfully built a Triton cloud, and am using it to provision
>>>>>> docker containers to build our java software.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The java container I use is derived from "java:8" docker image.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mostly it works. However I am getting mysterious failures where the
>>>>>> build process (maven) simply exits half way through with no error. I 
>>>>>> have a
>>>>>> test system that is spun up that, mostly, consistently fails in the same
>>>>>> place.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dmesg from inside the container yields nothing. Irritatinly, if I do
>>>>>> 'strace -ff -o me ...', the build continues past the point it was 
>>>>>> failing.
>>>>>> If I try to monitor the process from a second connection - sometimes the
>>>>>> build continues and *that* connection just dies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I was able to connect briefly with truss from the GZ, but I'm not
>>>>>> sure it tells me very much.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could I have hit some process accounting limit? I don't think it's
>>>>>> memory (the process is set to a fairly low java Xmx limit). Where else 
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> I look to figure this out?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> -Elijah
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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