[rhn-users] RE: up2date failure - corrupt spool files?

Tue Apr 20 07:02:06 UTC 2004

Hi Gene,

I recently encountered a similar problem with up2date. It would start
the process, but always fail when retrieving a specific package. Always
at the same time in the process.

Error: segmentation fault. But this message you won't see if you're
using the graphical interface, only when using command line.

Cause: a corrupt file in the spool folder: /var/spool/up2date/

Resolution: remove all files from this spool folder and try again.
Worked for me.

Hopefully this helps.

Regards,
	Ronald

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Today's Topics:

   1. RE: RH9 Up2date failure (gs040417a) (Gene Sears (MUMC))
   2. EXT3-fs error : Filename corruption after filesystem
      re-mounting on shared storage (Jude T. Cruz)
   3. glibc demaged (Devel (Alberto))

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:20:22 -0400
From: "Gene Sears \(MUMC\)" <gsears at mumctville.org>
Subject: [rhn-users] RE: RH9 Up2date failure (gs040417a)
To: "RedHat, RHN Users" <rhn-users at redhat.com>
Message-ID: <NGBBLAAKMLNFKOFKKNLLGEKDDJAA.gsears at mumctville.org>
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A follow-up on this...  I ran a sniffer on the LAN and re-attempted to
run up2date on the PC I tried to install RH9 on.  It failed as usual,
but when I was looking through the TCP capture file I found the
following string repeated several times at the end of a line
"1!0^_^F^I*†H†÷^M^A^I^A^V^Rrhn-noc at redhat.co]".  Notice the apparently
missing "m" to the left of the right bracket.  I wonder if that is, or
is a contributor to the problem?  Ideas?

Gene
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Gene Sears [mailto:etsears at mindspring.com]
  Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 5:22 PM
  To: RedHat, Install
  Subject: RH9 Up2date failure (gs040417a)

  RH9 Up2date failure, when this occurs is there an error log written,
and where?  Since it fails at 20% (after building an update list)
connectivity isn't the issue, what are other high probability failure
causes?  Since RedHat recognizes the user id, pw and email address, I
think it may be registered, but since I have made several attempts to
use up2date and ALL have failed at 20%, I'm not certain.

  Gene

  In case it is relative, X won't start and xfree86 is unable to
successfully configure the adapter or monitor.  The monitor is listed in
xfree86, but is not recognized.  The adapter "SiS 650/740" is not listed
in xfree86 even though it is favorably mentioned in the xfree86 log
file.  On exiting xfree86 it, always reports ALL monitor and adapter
info. as "bogus" from probing.

  The PC is a K7SOM mainboard based clone (1015 Hz Duron CPU, 128MB/32
shared w/video, integrated SiS 650/740 video, sound, and Ethernet).  It
is able to ping or be pinged on the LAN, and can ping hosts on the
Internet.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:27:13 +0800
From: "Jude T. Cruz" <jude at csn.com.my>
Subject: [rhn-users] EXT3-fs error : Filename corruption after
	filesystem	re-mounting on shared storage
To: <rhn-users at redhat.com>
Message-ID: <003f01c42609$ada02010$7701a8c0 at csn.com.my>
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Folks,

We are in the midst of setting a 2 node cluster using Red Hat Cluster
Manager. The hardware summary is as follows. 

2 units of HP Proliant DL580 connected using Smart Array 532 SCSI HBA to
a HP MSA500.  The cluster initialization completed without any errors
and we tried a failover using Samba it works fine. We stopped the
cluster config and installed Oracle 9i RDBMS one node and Oracle 10g
Apps on another node. Node one is called ecos1 and the 2nd node is
ecos2.

The kernel version is linux-2.4.90e.38smp 

Both servers are accesing different filesystems on the shared storage.
When we wanted to test the Oracle Database, we shutdown the database
followed by the server(ecos1) itself. We then started the 2nd node from
power-down stage and tried to mount the Oracle Database filesystems, it
mounted cleanly  but took some time at  when we tried to su as oracle.
At the background I captured the following errors in /var/log/messages
:-

Apr 19 16:46:04 ecos2 syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Apr 19 16:47:37 ecos2 kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5
seconds Apr 19 16:47:37 ecos2 kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.11, 3 Oct 2001 on
cciss1(105,6), internal journal Apr 19 16:47:37 ecos2 kernel: EXT3-fs:
mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Apr 19 16:47:53 ecos2 kernel:
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds Apr 19 16:47:53 ecos2
kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.11, 3 Oct 2001 on cciss1(105,7), internal
journal Apr 19 16:47:53 ecos2 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with
ordered data mode. Apr 19 16:48:02 ecos2 kernel: kjournald starting.
Commit interval 5 seconds Apr 19 16:48:02 ecos2 kernel: EXT3 FS
2.4-0.9.11, 3 Oct 2001 on cciss1(105,8), internal journal Apr 19
16:48:02 ecos2 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data
mode. Apr 19 16:49:15 ecos2 kernel: st: Version 20010812, bufsize 32768,
wrt 30720, max init. bufs 4, s/g segs 16 Apr 19 16:49:15 ecos2 kernel:
Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Apr 19 16:49:15
ecos2 kernel: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. Apr 19 16:52:51
ecos2 su(pam_unix)[8905]: session opened for user oracle by root(uid=0)
Apr 19 16:53:00 ecos2 kernel: cciss: cmd f6960000 timedout Apr 19
16:53:13 ecos2 last message repeated 2 times Apr 19 16:58:14 ecos2
su(pam_unix)[8905]: session closed for user oracle Apr 19 17:01:59 ecos2
kernel: cciss: cmd f6960000 timedout Apr 19 17:01:59 ecos2 kernel:
EXT3-fs error (device cciss1(105,6)):
ext3_readdir: directory #1632391 contains a hole at offset 0 Apr 19
17:06:03 ecos2 PAM-securetty[1203]: Couldn't open /etc/securetty Apr 19
17:06:05 ecos2 login(pam_unix)[1203]: session opened for user root by
LOGIN(uid=0) Apr 19 17:06:05 ecos2  -- root[1203]: ROOT LOGIN ON tty4
Apr 19 17:12:21 ecos2 su(pam_unix)[10127]: session opened for user
oracle by root(uid=0) Apr 19 17:14:16 ecos2 su(pam_unix)[10127]: session
closed for user oracle

When we tried to run sqlplus the executable was not found but actually
the file has been renamed as sqlplusO. There were other  files which has
O or 0 appended at the end.

I suspect it due to the filesystem error :-
Apr 19 17:01:59 ecos2 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device cciss1(105,6)):
ext3_readdir: directory #1632391 contains a hole at offset 0

Appreciate amy advise.

regards,
Jude T. Cruz
e-mail  : jude at csn.com.my  

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:03:14 +0100
From: "Devel (Alberto)" <devel at starosta.org>
Subject: [rhn-users] glibc demaged
To: rhn-users at redhat.com
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040319160301.024fd318 at mail.starosta.org>
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>Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:57:58 +0100
>To: rhn-users at redhat.com
>From: "Devel (Alberto)" <devel at starosta.org>
>Subject: glibc demaged
>
>Hi all.
>
>I have a big problem.
>
>Durning installation of mjpegtools on RH7.3 on our production server, I
>was assked to upgrade glibc. I downloaded rpm's and I forced
installation 
>by "--nodeps" directive. After this some programs won't work correctly,

>than I tryied to uninstall newer packages but was impossible (see below

>for error). I'm not expert, i tryed all methods (ex. yum) but still I
have 
>a problems with compilationss of any programs. I'desperated because
this 
>is production machine... Please help me !!!!!!!!!
>It's possible to repair without reinstall all system ?
>
>[root at masterlinux /work/install]# rpm -qa | sort | grep glib 
>compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2 glib10-1.0.6-10
>glib-1.2.10-5
>glib2-2.0.1-2
>glib2-devel-2.0.1-2
>glibc-2.2.5-34
>glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7
>glibc-common-2.2.5-34
>glibc-common-2.3.2-27.9.7
>glibc-debug-2.2.5-34
>glibc-debug-static-2.2.5-34
>glibc-devel-2.2.5-34
>glibc-kernheaders-2.4-7.14
>glibc-profile-2.2.5-34
>glibc-utils-2.2.5-34
>glib-devel-1.2.10-5
>
>[root at masterlinux /work/install]# rpm -e glibc-2.3.2-27.9.7 
>Segmentation fault
>
>Alberto.
>NB. Sorry for my english

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