Sundry repeating 2.0.x problems

Steven L Baur (steve@miranova.com)
27 Jul 1996 18:54:38 -0700


I had 4 machines that stayed up with 2.0.0 over three weeks. Since
2.0.0 things have gone downhill.

I have experienced various recurring problems. NFS is still problematic.

I wish I knew what this meant:
Jul 23 10:21:22 deanna nfsd[86]: impossible hash_path[0] value: 08077450 f4 9a050800000000000000000000000026372921060b56f9f7f4f400

Since 2.0.0 (This wasn't happening in 1.99.x or earlier) I have been
getting messages like this one.

Jul 18 08:58:58 deanna kernel: Out of memory for xemacs.

It generally seems to occur when XEmacs is starting up, and seems
spurious because there is always >30MB of available core+swap when
it dies. I've been over XEmacs enough to be sure this is not an
XEmacs problem.

I wish I knew what this meant (I didn't get them before 2.0.0, and
they don't cause a crash, though sometimes a lot of interactive
processes have to be killed before the machine resumes normal execution):

Jul 3 12:35:29 deanna kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Jul 3 12:35:39 deanna kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....

Jul 20 02:32:06 deanna kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Jul 20 02:32:45 deanna last message repeated 4 times
Jul 20 02:33:46 deanna last message repeated 6 times

I have always observed this message with greater than 30MB of swap
available according to `free'. It seems more likely to occur when I
am running XEmacs 20beta (10MB binary) with the executable on an
NFS-mounted disk and Netscape is also running. But with so much swap
available, I don't get it.

Are these normal, or are they like the UDP checksum bug that plagued
machines running BIND for awhile?

Jul 8 09:03:15 deanna sendmail[21698]: collect: premature EOM: Connection reset by peer during collect with wnt.dc.lsoft.com
Jul 9 06:43:57 deanna sendmail[26]: collect: premature EOM: Error 0

I've gotten quite a few of these NOQUEUE messages:

Jul 15 23:05:57 deanna sendmail[93]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): getrequests: accept: Network is unreachable
Jul 15 23:18:02 deanna sendmail[93]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): getrequests: accept: Network is unreachable
Jul 15 23:18:44 deanna last message repeated 3 times
Jul 15 23:33:03 deanna sendmail[93]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): getrequests: accept: Network is unreachable
Jul 15 23:33:44 deanna last message repeated 3 times
Jul 15 23:56:25 deanna sendmail[93]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): getrequests: accept: Network is unreachable
Jul 15 23:56:43 deanna sendmail[93]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): getrequests: accept: Network is unreachable

-- 
steve@miranova.com baur
Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour.
Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone
except you in November.