Re: more cfagent during kickstart woes

[Lars Damerow]

Hi guys,

Thanks for the advice--I've been using the shell on console 2 for a while in
the hopes of getting a gdb session attached to cfengine, but haven't gotten
very far. When it's hung, strace doesn't show anything interesting, so I assume
it's not making any syscalls.

Ed--switching virtual consoles and redirecting the output is a great idea! I
just did that, set cfengine to verbose and debugging mode, and the last few
lines it outputs before segfaulting (it gets a segmentation fault now) are:

Appending [ipv4_13_72]
AddClassToHeap(ipv4_138)
Appending [ipv4_138]
Trying to locate my IPv6 address
cfpopen(/sbin/ifconfig -a)

...and then it segfaults. Perhaps I need to disable IPv6 during kickstart..?

cheers,
lars

>From Ed Brown <ebrown@lanl.gov>, Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:53:10AM -0600:
> Good advice, especially if cfagent is hanging within kickstart.  If you
> switch to alt+F2, do 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' to get to the same
> environment that commands in %post (by default) run in.  
> 
> -Ed
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 11:32, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> > Hi Lars, I haven't seen this problem and I have used cfengine in my
> > kickstart scripts for both FC1 and FC2.  What I would recommend is that you
> > have kickstart run cfengine in verbose mode (maybe even debug?).  Then, you
> > can watch the output on one of the install screens (ctrl+alt+F3 I think).
> > Hopefully that will help you track down the problem.  If not, you can access
> > the shell (ctrl+alt+F2 during install), and do an strace or similar on the
> > cfengine process to see what is up.
> > 
> > -Jeff

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