[LDM #OCY-683651]: pqact crashes

Hi Bob,

Thanks for the info!

Can you send us your LDM configuration file so we can take
a look?  The reason I ask is your comment in a previous email
that your LDM log file is empty.

IMO (Steve may or may not agree), if I were in your position,
I would rebuild and reinstall LDM-6.13.12 from scratch saving
all output into log files.

For instance:

<as 'ldm'>
ldmadmin stop   <- just to be sure
ldmadmin clean  <-       "

cd ~/ldm-6.13.12/src
make distclean
./configure > configure.log 2>&1
make install > makeinstall.log 2>&1

re:
> With 'ldmadmin start' hung in one terminal, this is the output of those 
> commands in another:

Experimentation by us determined that the hanging is not the LDM server,
'ldmd', but, rather, the 'ldmamdin' Perl script.  The 'ps -ef | grep ldmd'
not showing any 'ldmd' process(es) is what we both saw when we removed
the setuid root bit on the 'ldmd' executable.

re:
> [ldm@chs-mets-02-d ~]$ ll
> 
> total 12440
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ldm ldm      11 Oct  9 15:50 bin -> runtime/bin
> drwxr-x---. 2 ldm ldm     146 Oct 10 00:03 etc
> drwxr-x---. 2 ldm ldm      80 Oct  9 23:41 etc.bak

Is there some reason you chose to (presumably) rename the existing
~ldm/etc directory to ~ldm/etc.bak?  Was this done as part of your
troubleshooting?

re:
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ldm ldm      15 Oct  9 15:50 include -> runtime/include
> drwxr-x---. 7 ldm ldm      67 Oct 10 17:18 ldm-6.13.11
> -rw-r-----. 1 ldm ldm 6287461 May  6  2019 ldm-6.13.11.tar.gz
> drwxr-x---. 7 ldm ldm      67 Oct  9 15:49 ldm-6.13.12
> -rw-r-----. 1 ldm ldm 6440466 Sep 30 16:59 ldm-6.13.12.tar.gz
> -rw-r-----. 1 ldm ldm       0 Oct 10 17:34 ldmd.pid
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ldm ldm      11 Oct  9 15:50 lib -> runtime/lib
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ldm ldm       8 Oct  9 17:24 logs -> var/logs
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ldm ldm      11 Oct 10 17:33 runtime -> ldm-6.13.12
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ldm ldm      13 Oct  9 15:50 share -> runtime/share
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ldm ldm      11 Oct  9 15:50 src -> runtime/src
> drwxrwxr-x. 2 ldm ldm    4096 Oct  9 17:36 util
> drwxr-x---. 5 ldm ldm      44 Oct  9 15:50 var
> 
> [ldm@chs-mets-02-d ~]$ cat ldmd.pid

This is definitely weird.

re:
> [ldm@chs-mets-02-d ~]$ date
> Sat Oct 10 17:36:23 UTC 2020

Yup, I see that the ldmd.pid file was just created.

re:
> [ldm@chs-mets-02-d ~]$ ps -ef | grep ldmd
> ldm        3816   3495  0 17:37 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto ldmd

The questions are:

- why did 'ldmd' exit

- why there is no LDM log file output


> [ldm@chs-mets-02-d ~]$
> 
> You can see the empty pid file was just created, and there's no ldmd process
> running.  Interestingly, when I link runtime to ldm-6.13.11, everything works
> as advertised.

This comment is exactly why I suggest building/installing LDM-6.13.12
from scratch.

re:
> Thanks for the support!

No worries.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OCY-683651
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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