[Orca-users] Orcallator - Segmentation Fault

Biju Joseph biju.joseph at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 10:44:24 PDT 2006


I am sorry for sending the big file without zipping. Here is the file in zip
format.

Thanks
Biju..


On 9/7/06, Biju Joseph <biju.joseph at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hello Adrian and Dmitry,
>
> Thank you very much for the quick response. I am attaching debug o/p of
> orcallator. From this will you be able to tell me what modification I should
> do. I am very poor in programming. It will be nice if you could please
> explain me this in a simple way. I will summarise it.
>
> Thanks
> Biju K Joseph
>
>
>
>
> On 9/7/06, Dmitry Berezin <dberezin at acs.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> >
> > It happens at startup. Take a look here:
> > http://www.orcaware.com/pipermail/orca-users/2006-August/004955.html
> >
> > - there is a good example of the problem with both debug and truss
> > outputs.
> >
> > IIRIC, this problem is Solaris 10 specific and has not shown up in
> > previous
> > versions of the OS.
> >
> > -Dmitry.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Cockcroft, Adrian [mailto:acockcroft at ebay.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:16 PM
> > > To: Dmitry Berezin; Biju Joseph; orca-users at orcaware.com
> > > Subject: RE: [Orca-users] Orcallator - Segmentation Fault
> > >
> > > It should still be possible to avoid the crash by checking for a null
> > at
> > > the right point.
> > >
> > > Is it crashing in kstat read of the iostats, or the devinfo name
> > mapping
> > > at startup?
> > >
> > > Adrian
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Dmitry Berezin [mailto: dberezin at surfside.rutgers.edu]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 8:43 AM
> > > To: Cockcroft, Adrian; 'Biju Joseph'; orca-users at orcaware.com
> > > Subject: RE: [Orca-users] Orcallator - Segmentation Fault
> > >
> > > Adrian,
> > >
> > > I believe that the actual problem is not with the array sizes, but has
> > > to do
> > > with the "stale" disk devices. SE "segfaults" when it tries to access
> > a
> > > device that is not currently present on the system. That is why the
> > > problem
> > > is usually seen on the clustered systems with shared storage or
> > systems
> > > with
> > > BCV devices that frequently change their state to offline. A number of
> >
> > > people had previously reported that rebuilding device tree fixed the
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > I have not had time to look at the code, so I do not know if this
> > could
> > > be
> > > solved by changing scripts or SE itself has to be patched.
> > >
> > >   -Dmitry.
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: orca-users-bounces+dberezin=acs.rutgers.edu at orcaware.com
> > > > [mailto: orca-users-bounces+dberezin=acs.rutgers.edu at orcaware.com]
> > On
> > > > Behalf Of Cockcroft, Adrian
> > > > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:13 AM
> > > > To: Biju Joseph; orca-users at orcaware.com
> > > > Subject: Re: [Orca-users] Orcallator - Segmentation Fault
> > > >
> > > > Years ago I fixed the code that looks at disks to resize the array
> > > > dynamically, I guess that this code got overwritten at some point,
> > but
> > > its
> > > > a simple fix, just doesn't look much like C code...
> > > >
> > > > You can use the "renew" keyword to make a new array that is bigger
> > and
> > > > contains the same items, so figure out where its indexing into the
> > > disk
> > > > array, check the index and renew the array to be size+10 or
> > something.
> > > > There's example code in the generic SE disk class, which for some
> > > reason
> > > > orcallator doesn't seem to use?
> > > >
> > > > I'm not currently working on a Solaris box, so it will take me a
> > while
> > > to
> > > > get a setup I could test this fix on, probably a few weeks when I
> > get
> > > back
> > > > from a business trip.
> > > >
> > > > Adrian
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: orca-users-bounces+acockcroft= ebay.com at orcaware.com on behalf
> > of
> > > > Biju Joseph
> > > > Sent: Thu 9/7/2006 7:28 AM
> > > > To: orca-users at orcaware.com
> > > > Subject: [Orca-users] Orcallator - Segmentation Fault
> > > >
> > > > Hello All,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to start orcallator on two nodes of VCS cluster ( 4.1 )
> > > with
> > > > VxVM 4.1 . Database is on EMC disks. Orcallator is giving
> > segmentation
> > > > fault.
> > > >
> > > > RICHPse version is 3.4 (03:59 PM 01/05/05).  I tried using
> > > orcallator.se
> > > > 1.36 and 1.37. Both giving same problem.
> > > >
> > > > The same combination is working on non clustered systems. All
> > systems
> > > are
> > > > Solaris 10
> > > >
> > > > Can any of you help.
> > > >
> > > > Appreciate your help.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Biju K Joseph
> > > > +91-9866116298
> > > >
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> >
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