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Re: LDM mystery

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  • Subject: Re: LDM mystery
  • Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:48:27 -0700
Sarah,

>Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:05:42 -0700
>From: Sarah Thompson <address@hidden>
>Organization: NOAA/FSL
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: LDM mystery

The above message contained the following:

> Steve, Chris finally found a bug report that was reporting java and
> other process' hanging in the same way we were seeing ldm hang, with the
> futex_wait in the strace.    The solution was to put
> ld_assume_kernel=2.4.19 as an environment variable in the
> ldmadmin-pl.conf.  Have only seen one  crash since then.  Just thought
> you would like to know.  Thanks for all your thoughts on this,  Sarah

Interesting!  Thanks for telling me about this.

I'd be inclined to set the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL in the
profile-file of the LDM user.  That way the LDM user wouldn't encounter
a futex() problem even if they manually executed LDM programs.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson