Re: {bb} RE: Purple (No Report)

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj@umdnj.edu>]

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Philip Clark wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 15:27, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
>> I'd say it's important to make sure that the individual client tests are
>> actually ever running. I've seen many situations where bbrun was
>> running, but none of the external scripts are (HP-UX was one platform).
> 
> Is it this thread you are thinking of:
> 
>   http://support.bb4.com/archive/200602/msg00174.html
> 
> If so, I don't think that it would affect the normal client-side
> tests. It appeared to be related only to those scripts specified
> in bb-bbexttab by hostname.
> 
> If not, can you recall any other symptoms. Did bbrun look like
> it was stuck, or were there messages in BBOUT to suggest that
> bb-local.sh was returning errors. It would be helpful if you
> could watch out for this happening again because it sounds like
> the type of behaviour that should be guarded against.
> 
> Cheers, Phil (who has a C360 he likes to play with).

I don't have the original mail anymore actually, so I didn't see whether
these were internal tests or bbext tests... so I may be answering the
wrong question. :)

Incidentally, in my case, the problem was solved by adding TERM=hp to
the beginning of the start line... apparently scripts executed from
inside the init script were failing because the machine was saying
"can't find your termtype, it is...?" and that was hanging waiting for
an interactive response. Perhaps that was homegrown.

I've had a sneaking suspicion that, depending on the platform (and when
you work on many, this becomes harder and harder to keep track of),
there are hangup related problems that may require you to do 'nohup
runbb.sh start'. I had one Solaris 10 machine that would seemingly work
after a restart but then after awhile not really seem to be doing
anything and everything would purple out (disastrous when you get 60
machines at once failing and paging everyone in sight). That one I
cleared up by switching to SMF rather than restarting by hand.

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