Re: Cfengine on SMP machines

[skaar]

* Mitch Collinsworth (mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu) [040414 17:44]:
> 
> A 2nd hand report:  Someone else here is running 2.1.4 on a 4-processor
> AMD opteron.  When I read him this question he said: "Oh yeah.  That
> happened to us, too.  It turned out to be not handling an error
> condition properly.  It was complaining about some config file not being
> found and then segfaulting.  When we created that file, it ran ok and
> stopped segfaulting."

It is a genuine bug in cfengine 2.1.4, a double free, with
DeleteParser() triggered only if WORKDIR/inputs/update.conf is missing,
which is probably why we didn't see that many reports about it, since
the most of us have a update.conf.

The fix for this was included in cfengine 2.1.5.

/skaar

> 
> -Mitch
> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> 
> >
> > I don't see why not. Try 2.1.5 or the current snapshot
> > on the developers pages.
> >
> > M
> >
> > On 14 Apr, Chidananda Jayakeerti wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Cfengine 2.1.4 segfaults on execution on a dual 64bit AMD machine.
> > >
> > > Can cfengine run on 64bit SMP machines?
> > >
> > > Chida
> 
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