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

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 18:30, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> 
> 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.

Thanks Ryan,

It's good to have advanced warning of potential problems. I suspect
that the HP-UX glitch might be related to a line like:

  eval ` tset -s -Q -m ':?hp' `

in either the BB users .profile or the system one. I have a vague
recollection of that causing problems in another context.

The Solaris one feels more weird, especially since the runbb.sh
script uses bbrun to control the bb-local.sh script and bbrun is
started with nohup. If possible, it would be helpful to know if
you are seeing the client being automatically restarted periodically
under SMF or if it now appears to run indefinitely.

Cheers, Phil.



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toys.

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