Re: Null filename on YellowDog

[Chris St. Pierre]

Updating to 2.1.19 fixed this problem.  Thanks for your help!

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Mark Burgess wrote:

>
>Are you mixing versions? What kind of version are you running? It used
>to be possible for this to happen nuder odd circumstances. Also make
>sure that the version you are running was compiled on YellowDog --
>perhaps there are library compatabilty issues.
>
>M
>
>On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 09:25 -0600, Chris St. Pierre wrote:
>> I apologize for cross-posting, but I'm talking to myself on the
>> newsgroup. :)
>> 
>> I'm in the process of bringing Cfengine up on a number of diverse 
>> hosts.  It's working fine on most of them, but it's not working on our 
>> two YellowDog Linux (PPC) machines.  When I try to run cfagent on the 
>> client ("students"), I get this: 
>> 
>> # cfagent -v 
>> [...snip...] 
>> cfengine:: Strong authentication of server=lewis connection confirmed 
>> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf wasn't at destination 
>> (copying) 
>> cfengine:: Copying from lewis: 
>> 
>> It hangs at this point until I C-c it, which gives me: 
>> 
>> cfengine:: Received signal 2 (SIGINT) while doing [pre-lock-state] 
>> cfengine:: Logical start time Thu Feb 23 08:06:08 2006 
>> cfengine:: This sub-task started really at Thu Feb 23 08:06:08 2006 
>> 
>> Starting the server ("lewis") with -d2 gives me the following output: 
>> 
>> [...snip...] 
>> cfservd: Host students.nebrwesleyan.edu granted access to 
>> /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf 
>> Clocks were off by 0 
>> StatFile(/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf) 
>> OK: type=0 
>>  mode=644 
>>  lmode=0 
>>  uid=0 
>>  gid=0 
>>  size=5162 
>>  atime=1140703206 
>>  mtime=1140646941 
>> Transaction Send[t 68][Packed text] 
>> Attempting to send 76 bytes 
>> SendSocketStream, sent 76 
>> Transaction Send[t 3][Packed text] 
>> Attempting to send 11 bytes 
>> SendSocketStream, sent 11 
>> RecvSocketStream(8) 
>>     (Concatenated 8 from stream) 
>> Transaction Receive [t 9][] 
>> RecvSocketStream(9) 
>>     (Concatenated 9 from stream) 
>> Received: [GET 2048 ] on socket 5 
>> AccessControl() 
>> cfservd: Couldn't stat filename  from host students.nebrwesleyan.edu 
>> 
>> cfservd: lstatcfservd: Host authorization/authentication failed or 
>> access denied 
>> Transaction Send[t 114][Packed text] 
>> Attempting to send 122 bytes 
>> SendSocketStream, sent 122 
>> cfservd: From 
>> (host=students.nebrwesleyan.edu,user=root,ip=::ffff:10.12.1.6) 
>> RecvSocketStream(8) 
>> Transmission empty or timed out... 
>> Transaction Receive [][] 
>> RecvSocketStream(0) 
>> cfservd terminating NULL transmission! 
>> Terminating thread... 
>> ***Closing socket 5 from ::ffff:10.12.1.6 
>> 
>> Note that there are two spaces between "stat filename" and "from
>> host".  The problem is that the file to transfer is not getting set
>> properly at one end or the other; running "cfagent -v -d2" on the
>> client gives the following:
>> 
>> [...snip...] 
>> ImageCopy(/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf,/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf,+700,-7077)
>>  
>> ExpandVarstring(lewis) 
>> IgnoredOrExcluded() 
>> file /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf class any was not excluded 
>> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf wasn't at destination 
>> (copying) 
>> cfengine:: Copying from lewis: 
>> CopyReg(,/var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf) 
>> This is a remote copy from server: lewis 
>> Transaction Send[t 9][Packed text] 
>> Attempting to send 17 bytes 
>> SendSocketStream, sent 17 
>> RecvSocketStream(2048) 
>>     (Concatenated 122 from stream) 
>> 
>> That's the point where it freezes.  For some reason, one of the 
>> arguments to CopyReg is null.  Given that Cfengine is running just
>> fine on eight other machines with the same exact update.conf file, I'm
>> thinking that this might be a bug with Cfengine on YellowDog Linux.
>> Is anyone out there running Cfengine on YDL?  Does anyone have any
>> ideas about how to solve my problem?  I looked through the code, but
>> I'm not a C hacker, so I got lost pretty fast.  Thanks for your help!
>> 
>> Chris St. Pierre
>> Unix Systems Administrator
>> Nebraska Wesleyan University
>> 
>> 
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