RE: PR Submission (Change of state) gets locked

[Michael Loftis]

/proc/kcore is the *kernel* core.  /proc/* contains information about the 
current system state.  Depending on your OS you'll need to look for a file 
named 'core' or 'executable.core' (ie 'gnatsd.core') or maybe some other 
variant.

--On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 3:44 PM +0530 Chandra Ramesh 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> 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