* Deciphering error message
@ 2005-08-09 20:44 Paul Dorman
2005-08-12 17:15 ` Gerrit Pape
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From: Paul Dorman @ 2005-08-09 20:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi all, not *quite* understanding how everything should look, and I hate
to say it, but the documentation for runit appears to be lacking. A
howto or two would be great (especially for Debian ;o) )
I have a test machine (running inside a Xen VM) and have installed the
runit package for sarge to see how everything might look. I have
an /etc/runit directory, where a getty-5 example directory was created
with the following structure:
sysadmin:/etc/runit# ls -l getty-5/
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31 2005-03-26 08:47 finish
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44 2005-03-26 08:47 run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-08-09 15:21 supervise
-> /var/run/getty-5
I created a symlink to the getty-5 directory in /var/service, and I can
see the following in /var/run/getty-5/:
sysadmin:/etc/runit# ls -l /var/run/getty-5
total 12
prw------- 1 root root 0 2005-08-09 15:35 control
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2005-08-09 15:35 lock
prw------- 1 root root 0 2005-08-09 15:35 ok
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 2005-08-09 15:37 pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 2005-08-09 15:37 stat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 2005-08-09 15:37 status
I copied the structure of the /etc/runit/getty-5 and modified it to
start apache2, and noted that there is an empty /var/run/apache2
directory which I have linked to /etc/runit/apache2/supervise.
Apache is running, and I note that it continues to run when I kill -9
the Apache processes, so it looks like Apache is running under runit's
supervision. Great!
The issue I now have is that I see this unhelpful line in my process
list (all on one line):
root 11332 0.0 0.0 88 28 ? Ss 08:29 0:00
runsvdir /var/service log: lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
apache2: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
getty-5: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
apache2: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
getty-5: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
apache2: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?
Could someone please tell me what this message means? Is there something
I need to do to make it go away? If it's not a real error, it sure looks
like one!
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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* Re: Deciphering error message
2005-08-09 20:44 Deciphering error message Paul Dorman
@ 2005-08-12 17:15 ` Gerrit Pape
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Gerrit Pape @ 2005-08-12 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 08:44:33AM +1200, Paul Dorman wrote:
> I have a test machine (running inside a Xen VM) and have installed the
> runit package for sarge to see how everything might look. I have
> an /etc/runit directory, where a getty-5 example directory was created
> with the following structure:
>
> sysadmin:/etc/runit# ls -l getty-5/
> total 8
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 31 2005-03-26 08:47 finish
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 44 2005-03-26 08:47 run
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-08-09 15:21 supervise
> -> /var/run/getty-5
The symlink in /var/run/ is just for convenience in Debian, to have
/etc/ possibly mount read-only. runsv creates the ./supervise/
directory automatically, also if it's a dangling symlink.
> I created a symlink to the getty-5 directory in /var/service, and I can
> see the following in /var/run/getty-5/:
Yes, but it shouldn't interest you that much, this directory is meant to
be used by the runit programs.
> I copied the structure of the /etc/runit/getty-5 and modified it to
> start apache2, and noted that there is an empty /var/run/apache2
> directory which I have linked to /etc/runit/apache2/supervise.
>
> Apache is running, and I note that it continues to run when I kill -9
> the Apache processes, so it looks like Apache is running under runit's
> supervision. Great!
>
> The issue I now have is that I see this unhelpful line in my process
> list (all on one line):
>
> root 11332 0.0 0.0 88 28 ? Ss 08:29 0:00
> runsvdir /var/service log: lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
> apache2: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
> getty-5: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
> apache2: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
> getty-5: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?runsv
> apache2: fatal: unable to lock supervise/lock: temporary failure?
> Could someone please tell me what this message means? Is there something
> I need to do to make it go away? If it's not a real error, it sure looks
> like one!
It looks like there're already runsv processes running in
/var/service/getty-5/ and /var/service/apache2/, and runsvdir tries to
start up new ones; tell the currently running runsv processes to exit so
that runsvdir can start up and monitor the supervisors, this may fix the
problem the log shows.
# runsvctrl exit /service/getty-5/ /service/apache2/
What you see in the process listing is the 'last resort' readproctitle
log of runsvdir, it shows messages written to stderr by the ./run and
./finish scripts or service daemons. runsvdir will write a dot at the
and of this log every 15 minutes.
HTH, Gerrit.
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