Re: defunct ifconfig

[Mark . Burgess]

Well the change that has occurred in cfengine is that it tries
to find an ipv6 address using ifconfig. As to why it hangs, I
am not sure...

M

On 30 Apr, Lance Albertson wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm having a couple of strange problems lately with cfengine that I
> think could be related. It seems that cfagent is somehow making a
> defunct ifconfig process that just lingers. Along with this, there seems
> to be multiple cfexecd/cfagent processes that also seem to linger. Below
> is some of the ps output for the machine. This has just recently been
> happening and I don't think I've changed anything lately to make this
> happen. The only major thing is I've upgraded cfengine to 2.1.5 lately. 
> 
> root     28747  0.0  0.1 11644 3836 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 
> /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd
> root     22480  0.0  0.2  5556 4484 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 
> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
> root     13753  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr30   0:00 [ifconfig] 
> <defunct>
> root     10738  0.0  0.0  1688 1284 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
> root     31714  0.0  0.1  4736 2176 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 
> /usr/sbin/cfexecd -F
> root     17319  0.0  0.2  5588 4540 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 
> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
> root      2979  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr30   0:00 [ifconfig] 
> <defunct>
> root     19072  0.0  0.1 11644 3836 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 
> /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd
> root     31005  0.0  0.2  5532 4484 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 
> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
> root     13333  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr30   0:00 [ifconfig] 
> <defunct>
> root      1560  0.0  0.0  1688 1284 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON
> root     16453  0.0  0.1  4764 2176 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 
> /usr/sbin/cfexecd -F
> root     13099  0.0  0.2  5748 5096 ?        S    Apr30   0:00 
> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
> root     21605  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    Apr30   0:00 [ifconfig] 
> <defunct>
> root     14299  0.0  0.1 11644 3836 ?        S    00:00   0:00 
> /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd
> root      3565  0.0  0.2  5736 4896 ?        S    00:00   0:00 
> /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
> root     12430  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        Z    00:00   0:00 [ifconfig] 
> <defunct>
> 
> Sorry I don't have much other debug info, but I thought I'd at least see
> if any of you have encountered this before. There's not much info in the
> logs that I can see so far. Anyhelp would be great!
> 
> Thanks!
> 



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