Re: cfexecd's still not terminating - 2.1.13/RH AS 2.1

[Eric Sorenson]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, David E. Nelson wrote:

> root 11172 0.0 0.0 4100 1680 ?  S 10:20 0:01 /var/cfengine/bin/cfenvd
> root 11341 0.0 0.0 4332 1720 ?  S 10:22 0:00 /var/cfengine/bin/cfservd
> root 21143 0.0 0.1 1058092 1800 ?  S 12:04 0:00 /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd
> root 26153 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?  Z 13:00 0:00 [cfexecd <defunct>]


> Is there any way I that I help out here?  I've got CFEngine rolled out to
> Solaris and it's working great.  Now I'd like to get this rolled out to our
> production Linux servers but I won't until these types of issues get ironed
> out.

Can you attach to the ppid (21143 in the above listing) with gdb
and see what it's doing with 'bt full' ?

gdb -p 21143
gdb> file /var/cfengine/bin/cfexecd
gdb> bt full

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