Ubuntu
rstatd package

Forks off too many processes

Bug #81034 reported by Ryan Lovett on 2007-01-22

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #55674: dapper rstatd 4.0-1 doesn't work. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	rstatd (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #324551
	rstatd (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: rstatd

We ran across the bug reported in Debian:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=324551

on our Dapper i386 machines. Basically rstatd forks off way too many times and in our case caused resource allocation failures. It was not evident on our amd64 machines. I took the Debian patch and made new dapper packages and rstatd seems to work properly. I'll attach the patch fragment that fixes the problem.

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Ryan Lovett (ryan-spacecoaster) wrote on 2007-01-22:

initialization patch Edit (348 bytes, text/plain)

Debian description:

  * The namelen parameter should be initialized to indicate the
    amount of space pointed to by name. Closes: #363641, #324551,
    #336588. Patch by Pete Harlan <email address hidden>.

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Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen) wrote on 2007-01-23:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

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Ryan Lovett (ryan-spacecoaster) wrote on 2007-01-24: Re: [Bug 81034] Re: Forks off too many processes

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:07:45PM -0000, Kai Kasurinen wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 55674 ***
>
> Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
> reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 55674
> dapper rstatd 4.0-1 doesn't work

Thanks. (I thought I checked thoroughly)

The above bug is marked "Fix Released" but it is fixed in feisty and not
dapper. Can the patch be applied to dapper as well?

Ryan

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-01-24