[BlueOnyx:05500] Re: Cced hangs, admsrv & httpd down @ 4am

[Rickard Osser]

Hi,

I've seen the same the last couple of days, while doing a lot of updates
(packages I'm rewriting). It seems that yum update started from the GUI
actually kills cced while trying to make a restart of the process.

This shouldn't happen if updates are done in the background. As I see
cced shouldn't be restarted if the rpm-packages are installed from the
GUI. Yum should be started with "at" instead of run from sausalito to be
safe. We should also disable the server desktop while yum is running.

Michael, what do you think?

Regards,

Rickard 


On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 17:28 +0100, Jeff Jones wrote:
> Hi Syd,
> 
> I have auto yum updates switched off on this server (I like to apply them manually after everyone else has tried them first!)
> 
> Knowing this do you think this really could still be the same problem?
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On 28 Sep 2010, at 17:17, Syd van Gastel wrote:
> 
> > Hello Jeff,
> > 
> > Had the same Yesterday, looks like a problem with yum trying to update, after a reboot yum clean all, yum update the problem was gone.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> > Syd
> > 
> > 
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> >>  1. [BlueOnyx:05490] Re: Cced hangs, admsrv & httpd down @ 4am
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> >>  2. [BlueOnyx:05491] Re: Cced hangs, admsrv & httpd down @ 4am
> >>     (Gerald Waugh)
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> >> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:19:57 +0100
> >> From: Jeff Jones <jeffrhysjones at mac.com>
> >> Subject: [BlueOnyx:05490] Re: Cced hangs, admsrv & httpd down @ 4am
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> >> Just thought I would post an update to this issue.
> >> 
> >> After going through the monitoring system - I have noticed that from 4pm yesterday, this BX box had been generating two new 'mystery processes' every 15 minutes - which did not die.
> >> 
> >> So at 4pm there were 113 processes (that the box seems to run most of the time).
> >> 
> >> By 4am this morning - this had risen, 2 every 15 mins, in an almost totally linear fashion, to 232 running processes. 
> >> 
> >> At this point Cceed, HTTP & AdmServ died, but the server carried on spawning processes - until I restarted the entire server.
> >> 
> >> I guess had I looked at exactly what processes were running before I restarted - I might have got a clue as to the cause - something to remember for next time.
> >> 
> >> I have gone back to 4pm in the messages log, and again nothing much in there.....
> >> 
> >> Any suggestions of where else to look?
> >> 
> >> Jeff
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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> >> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:44:57 -0500
> >> From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com>
> >> Subject: [BlueOnyx:05491] Re: Cced hangs, admsrv & httpd down @ 4am
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> >> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 16:19 +0100, Jeff Jones wrote:
> >>> Just thought I would post an update to this issue.
> >>> 
> >>> After going through the monitoring system - I have noticed that from 4pm yesterday, this BX box had been generating two new 'mystery processes' every 15 minutes - which did not die.
> >>> 
> >>> So at 4pm there were 113 processes (that the box seems to run most of the time).
> >>> 
> >>> By 4am this morning - this had risen, 2 every 15 mins, in an almost totally linear fashion, to 232 running processes. 
> >>> 
> >>> At this point Cceed, HTTP & AdmServ died, but the server carried on spawning processes - until I restarted the entire server.
> >>> 
> >>> I guess had I looked at exactly what processes were running before I restarted - I might have got a clue as to the cause - something to remember for next time.
> >>> 
> >>> I have gone back to 4pm in the messages log, and again nothing much in there.....
> >>> 
> >>> Any suggestions of where else to look?
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> what's in /tmp
> >> recently worked on a hacked server
> >> had ICEICE, nc and nc.1 in /tmp
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> Gerald
> >> 
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