Problems with mcstrans

[Deji Akingunola]

On 5/12/06, Émeric Maschino <emeric.maschino at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since the switch from libsetrans to mcstrans (0.1.1-1 and 0.1.2-1 tested) two
> days ago, I'm experiencing several issues on my Itanium workstation. During
> startup, sm-client takes a long time (1-2 minutes) to start. Well in fact, it
> fails to start with the following error:
>
> file_contexts: invalid context system_u:object_r:sendmail_var_run_t:s0
> matchpathcon (/var/run/sm-client.pid) failed Invalid argument
>
> More annoying, xfs fails to start too and thus gdm can't start the X server.
> I've also noticed that the HDD activity LED keeps busy. Indeed, my
> /var/log/messages file is flooded with lines like these:
>
> May 13 00:22:05 localhost mcstransd: Could not allocate 1953724787 bytes
> May 13 00:22:05 localhost mcstransd: Servicing of request failed for fd (4)
> May 13 00:22:05 localhost mcstransd: Could not allocate 1953724787 bytes
> May 13 00:22:05 localhost mcstransd: Servicing of request failed for fd (6)
>
> Always the same lines with fd (4) and fd (6).
>
> Due to this abnormal HDD activity, my system is not very responsive. Once
> mcstransd is manually stopped, I can restart xfs and then the X server.
>
> The Fedora Devel list or bugzilla have no information regarding these issues.
> Are they specific to the ia64 platform?

I don't think so, I'm experiencing same issue on x86_64. Hopefully
tomorrow's update will cure it.

Cheers,
Deji