Re: cfengine under x86_64

[Mark Burgess]

William - this could well be a bug that was patched recently. I shall be
releasing 2.1.19 this weekend FYI - perhaps that will help.

M

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:50 +0000, William H. Bell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone seen segmentation faults of cfengine built for x86_64?  We have 
> been using cfengine 2.1.13 under both Redhat Enterprise 3.0.3 and 4.0 on 
> 32 bit systems.  After buying some AMD Athlon 3800+ desktops I rebuilt our 
> RPM based on dag's rpm spec file for x86_64.  When running "cfagent -q" on 
> the x86_64 client the program issued a segmentation fault while processing 
> our cf.groups file containing:
> 
> groups:
> 
>    # Classes dependent on machine type
>    desktop = ( HostRange(machine,1-99) another09 )
>    server = ( HostRange(boxes,4-5) )
>    ppelx = ( machine55 machine62 machine70 )
> 
> I then built a x86_84 RPM of cfengine version 2.1.18 using dag's more 
> recent spec file http://dag.wieers.com/packages/cfengine/cfengine.spec and 
> tried that.  This also gave a segmentation fault but with some more 
> information:
> 
> address@hidden dir]# /usr/sbin/cfagent -q --debug
> Setting cfengine new port to 48148
> Setting cfengine old port to 5308
> Reference time set to Thu Feb 23 10:37:26 2006
> 
> GNU Configuration Engine -
> 2.1.18
> Free Software Foundation 1994-
> Donated by Mark Burgess, Faculty of Engineering,
> Oslo University College, 0254 Oslo, Norway
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Host name is: CLIENT-CENSORED
> Operating System Type is linux
> Operating System Release is 2.4.21-37.0.1.ELsmp
> Architecture = x86_64
> 
> 
> Using internal soft-class linux for host linux
> 
> The time is now Thu Feb 23 10:37:26 2006
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Additional hard class defined as: 64_bit
> Additional hard class defined as: linux_2_4_21_37_0_1_ELsmp
> Additional hard class defined as: linux_x86_64
> Additional hard class defined as: linux_x86_64_2_4_21_37_0_1_ELsmp
> Additional hard class defined as: 
> linux_x86_64_2_4_21_37_0_1_ELsmp__1_SMP_Thu_Ja
> n_19_16_26_58_CST_2006
> 
> GNU autoconf class from compile time: compiled_on_linux_gnu
> 
> Address given by nameserver: CENSORED
> Interface 1: lo
> Interface 2: eth0
> Trying to locate my IPv6 address
> Looking for environment from cfenvd...
> 
> Unable to detect environment from cfenvd
> 
> cfengine:: No preconfiguration file
> 
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>   * (Changing context state to: update) *
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
> 
> Looking for an input file /var/cfengine/inputs/update.conf
> Finished with update.conf
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Looking for remote method collaborations
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Finished with RPC
> 
> LogDirectory = /var/cfengine
> Loaded /var/cfengine/ppkeys/localhost.priv
> Loaded /var/cfengine/ppkeys/localhost.pub
> Checksum database is /var/cfengine/checksum.db
> 
> *********************************************************************
>   Update Sched: copy pass 1 @ Thu Feb 23 10:37:26 2006
> *********************************************************************
> 
> Checking copy from SERVER-CENSORED:/var/cfengine/inputs/config to 
> /var/cfengine/inputs
> Connect to SERVER-CENSORED = SERVER-CENSORED on port 5308
> cfengine:: Trusting server identity and willing to accept key from 
> SERVER-CENSORED=SERVER-CENSORED
> Saving public key /var/cfengine/ppkeys/root-SERVER-CENSORED.pub
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cfagent.conf wasn't at destination (copying)
> cfengine:: Copying from 
> SERVER-CENSORED:/var/cfengine/inputs/config/cfagent.conf
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cfservd.conf wasn't at destination (copying)
> cfengine:: Copying from 
> SERVER-CENSORED:/var/cfengine/inputs/config/cfservd.conf
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/CHANGES wasn't at destination (copying)
> cfengine:: Copying from SERVER-CENSORED:/var/cfengine/inputs/config/CHANGES
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cf.main wasn't at destination (copying)
> cfengine:: Copying from SERVER-CENSORED:/var/cfengine/inputs/config/cf.main
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cf.sl303 wasn't at destination (copying)
> cfengine:: Copying from SERVER-CENSORED:/var/cfengine/inputs/config/cf.sl303
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cf.groups wasn't at destination (copying)
> cfengine:: Copying from SERVER-CENSORED:/var/cfengine/inputs/config/cf.groups
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cf.sl40 wasn't at destination (copying)
> cfengine:: Copying from SERVER-CENSORED:/var/cfengine/inputs/config/cf.sl40
> cfengine:: /var/cfengine/inputs/cf.sl305 wasn't at destination (copying)
> cfengine:: Copying from SERVER-CENSORED:/var/cfengine/inputs/config/cf.sl305
> Saving the setuid log in 
> /var/cfengine/cfagent.CLIENT-CENSORED.ph.gla.ac.uk.log
> 
> *********************************************************************
>   Update Sched: tidy pass 1 @ Thu Feb 23 10:37:26 2006
> *********************************************************************
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Tidying Spool Directories
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> cf:cfengine::/var/cfengine/inputs/cf.groups:8: Function or format of input 
> file requires 1 argument items
> 
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Line 8 of the cf.groups file contains the first use of HostRange:
> desktop = ( HostRange(machine,1-99) another09 )
> 
> Has anyone seen anything like this?  Should I be using some special built 
> options.  (I can send the build log for any interested.)  For now I'm 
> using my i386 RPM on the x86_64 system.
> 
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> 
> Will
> 
> 
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