Re: cfd daemons exit (lock expired)

[Mark . Burgess]

Hi Jennifer,

It looks as though the original lock on the daemon is being is being
confused with the lock from the cfengine run command. It's been a
while since version 1.6.3, but I seem to recall that this was a cut'n'paste
error in the code. You could try searching for a GetLock("cfd",...)
call in the text and changing it to GetLock("xcfd",...) or something
to see if that helps.

I would like to encourage you though to upgrade to version 2.0.2 of
cfengine (see all the notes about doing this at http://www.cfengine.org).
This contains many improvements over 1.6.3, both in terms of efficiency,
reliability and functionality. 

best wishes,
Mark Burgess


On  1 Jun, Jennifer Cranfill wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using cfengine  1.6.3 on a Redhat 7.1 cluster. The daemons on my nodes
> keep exiting after a few hours (8-24). The message returned is "Lock
> /var/run/cfengine/lock._etc_opt_csm_cfd_conf.c5bn08.cfd.daemon
> expired...(after XXX/5 minutes)". Does anyone know what might be causing
> the lock to expire? Is there a setting I need in my config files to keep
> this from happening?
> 
> from /var/log/messages:
>    May 31 12:44:02 c5bn08 c5bn08.ppd.pok.ibm.com[20870]: cfd: Multithreaded
>    version
>    May 31 12:44:02 c5bn08 c5bn08.ppd.pok.ibm.com[20870]: cfd: starting Fri
>    May 31 12:44:02 2002
>    ...
>    May 31 15:39:51 c5bn08 cfd[21265]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 15:39:51 c5bn08 cfd[21265]: Executing command X
>    May 31 15:41:00 c5bn08 cfd[21287]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 15:41:00 c5bn08 cfd[21287]: Executing command X
>    May 31 15:42:51 c5bn08 cfd[21307]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 15:42:51 c5bn08 cfd[21307]: Executing command X
>    May 31 15:42:57 c5bn08 cfd[21327]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 15:43:03 c5bn08 cfd[21328]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 15:43:09 c5bn08 cfd[21329]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 15:43:15 c5bn08 cfd[21330]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 15:43:20 c5bn08 cfd[21331]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 15:43:26 c5bn08 cfd[21332]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 16:43:26 c5bn08 cfd[20871]: Setting autorun time to 3600 seconds
>    May 31 16:43:26 c5bn08 cfd[20871]: Lock /var/run/cfengine/lock.
>    _etc_opt_csm_cfd_conf.c5bn08.cfd.daemon expired...(after 80/5 minutes)
>    May 31 16:43:29 c5bn08 cfd[20871]: Exit -- (waiting for threads), pid =
>    20871
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Regards
> Jennifer Cranfill
> Linux Cluster Development, IBM, Poughkeepsie, NY
> Email: address@hidden    Phone:  external: 845-433-6656, internal: TL
> 293-6656
> 



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