[Mageia-sysadm] Puppet lockup, potential solution

[Michael Scherer]

Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 00:02 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> Le lundi 18 juillet 2011 à 14:59 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After trying the hardcore approach ( debugging, etc ), I decided to do a
> > more complete search on the web, and found that :
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/puppet-users@googlegroups.com/msg09156.html
> > 
> > Basically, that's exactly the problem we see, and I have been able to
> > reproduce on alamut, using the openssl speed trick.
> > 
> > According to 
> > https://launchpad.net/debian/squeeze/+source/ruby1.8/+changelog
> > the bug is fixed in 1.8.7.299 
> > 
> > Problem, we run : 
> > [root at alamut ~]# rpm -q ruby
> > ruby-1.8.7.p249-4.1mdv2010.2
> > 
> > So we have a few choice :
> > - backport the patch
> > ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580464 ) 
> > 
> > - backport the whole ruby package
> > 
> > - wait until we upgrade servers ( and kill all puppet process once per
> > day )
> 
> For testing, I backported the patch on friteuse ( as this is the most
> affected server ). 

No error on friteuse during the night ( as seen on sysadmin-reports ml
and on xymon ), so I tested on alamut too ( as the 2nd most affected
server ).

If the problem is fixed, I guess I can request a update to Mandriva.

-- 
Michael Scherer