RE: PR Submission (Change of state) gets locked

[Chandra Ramesh]

Hello,

        Thanks for the pointer. I think as you have pointed, the gnatsd daemon
        might be crashing. There is a "kcore" file created in /proc directory.
        Is there a way that I can debug this "kcore" file to know why gnatsd
        is crashing?

        I checked up the files under gnats-adm directory and found it to be
        of right syntax.

        Does "gnatsd" daemon crash only because that the database config files
        are not in the right syntax OR are there any other reason that it can crash?

        Please let me know.

Thanks and Regards,
Ramesh Chandra

-----Original Message-----
From: Yngve Svendsen [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:20 PM
To: Chandra Ramesh; address@hidden
Cc: GNATS HELP
Subject: RE: PR Submission (Change of state) gets locked

At 14:26 27.01.2003 +0530, Chandra Ramesh wrote:

>Hello,
>
>         The lock file is not a stale file. It is getting created every time
>         the moment I click on the submit button after entering the reqd
> changes.
>
>         Probably, the lock file should be created to prevent a
> simultaneous modification
>         by an other user. The problem is that the lock file should get
> deleted on it's own
>         and but it is not.

This probably means that gnatsd crashes while processing your changes. Have
you made any changes to the database config files (categories etc.) lately?
gnatsd 3.x does not handle syntax errors there gracefully and may leave
stale lock files behind when it dies. You should probably have a look at
your config.

Yngve Svendsen