Re: email follow up to GNATS PRs

[Elena]

Hans-Albert,

Thank you so much for detailed description. I must apologize - as I have found 
the root of the problem - but failed to report it back to the list.

At one point I was looking for a way to allow for a text to be added to the 
audit-trail manually (append) and I have followed an example - which suggest to 
add "Add-to-Audit-Trail" parameter in dbconfig - and also entailed setting 
"Audit-Trail" parameter to "read-only" 

When I removed "Add-to-Audit-Trail"  parameter (no longer needed) I forgot to 
remove "read-only" from the "Audit-Trail". This what have caused the behavior I 
described.

Not sure - whether it is a bug - or desired behavior - but I though it was a 
little odd. If it was truly read-only - I would of not expected to have 
"on-change" entries getting appended to audit-trail - and they did. Not sure 
what "read-only" really means for this parameter - whether it read-only for 
"user" or "internal system" etc... but ever since I have removed it - 
everything seem to be working just fine.

Thanks again for your help!

P.S. I have compiled Gnats - running Linux Red Hat 6.2 with 2.4.18 kernel

-elena


At 11:53 PM 3/10/2003 +0100, Hans-Albert Schneider wrote:
>>>>>> "Elena" == Elena  <address@hidden> writes:
>
>    Elena> Hi, Can anyone point me to the right direction....
>
>    Elena> We have gnats 4.0 beta version. When someone sends
>    Elena> email follow up to gnats, following happens:
>
>    Elena> 1. file "gnatsBlah" created in the gnats-queue
>    Elena> directory 2. Short thereafter file disappears from the
>    Elena> the gnats-queue directory (I think it is getting
>    Elena> parsed correctly than) 3. Gnats sends email
>    Elena> confirmation "The following reply was made to PR
>    Elena> .....; it has been noted by GNATS." with a body of
>    Elena> follow up.  4. Nothing else happens
>
>    Elena> I was expecting that at #4 I would see follow up
>    Elena> appended to the PR's audit-trail, but this never
>    Elena> happens. Any ideas of what may be wrong? I have
>    Elena> checked file permissions, GNATS can write to
>    Elena> PRs. Also, audit-trail entries working otherwise
>    Elena> (State change, etc)
>
>    Elena> Any help is much appreciated!  -elena
>
>
>Try the following:
>
>a) temporarily remove the cron job (so 2. will not happen by
>   accident)
>
>b) send a new follow-up e-mail
>
>c) when this mail is in the queue, manually run the
>        queue-pr -r -d <database-name>
>   from the cron job.  Watch for error messages, exit code,
>   core file etc.:
>
>        cd <database-dir>/gnats-queue
>        queue-pr -r -d <database-name>
>
>   This hopefully gives you some error messages that point you
>   into the right direction.
>
>   Next, check the exit status ("echo $?" for bash, ksh and friends,
>   "echo $status" for (t)csh).
>
>   You may want to look for a "core dump":
>        ls -l *core*
>
>   If there is a core file, use the "file" command to find out
>   which application produced it (probably queue-pr) and try to
>   find the code location of the crash with a debugger, e.g.:
>
>        gdb /usr/local/libexec/gnats/queue-pr core
>
>   I don't know whether you are a programmer, and I am not good
>   at describing debuggers.  The debugger has a command that
>   lists the stack frames; for GNU gdb this is "where".
>
>
>d) If this doesn't help you, repeat b) and c), but add "-D" to the
>   queue-pr command.  This switches debug messages on; try to get
>   a clue from them.
>
>
>e) re-activate the cron job.
>
>
>If you get some new information, but cannot solve the problem,
>please come back *to the list* with this info (not to me, I will
>be on vacation soon; sorry.)
>
>
>Please also state which operating system and hardware platform
>you use ("uname -a").
>
>If this is a Linux system, please also state the vendor (RedHat,
>SuSE, Debian, Mandrake, ...) and vendor version (e.g., "RedHat
>7.2"); some systems have a file /etc/<vendorname>-release (e.g.,
>/etc/SuSE-release) that should contain this information.
>
>Did you compile GNATS yourself, or did you use a pre-compiled
>package?
>
>
>Hans-Albert
>
>-- 
>Hans-Albert Schneider
>Munich, Germany
>EMail: address@hidden