[Spacewalk-list] repo sync crashing

[Sander Grendelman]

This looks like a "too many open files" error ( 1014 is suspiciously
close to 1024).

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 06:58:47AM -0500, Kenneth Ratliff wrote:
> I've been noticing that my repo syncs haven't been completing an actual full sync. I had been syncing them through the web GUI, but tonight I tried it via the commandline to see if I could see what was happening. It usually dies after transferring 1013 packages. 
> 
> And sure enough, doing so tonight yielded the following as soon as it went to transfer the 1014th package (I'm syncing the entire EPEL repo, so this has taken a little bit) 
> 
> python: ./rpmio_internal.h:502: c2f: Assertion `fd && fd->magic == 0x04463138' failed.
> ORA-24550: signal received: [si_signo=6] [si_errno=0] [si_code=-6] [si_int=4202816] [si_ptr=0x402140] [si_addr=0x4848]
> kpedbg_dmp_stack()+297<-kpeDbgCrash()+75Cannot open /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 for reading: errno=24
> <-075E6CC1Cannot open /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 for reading: errno=24
> <-07377F6F<-gsignal()+80<-abort()+257<-__assert_fail()+251Cannot open /usr/lib/librpmio-4.4.so for reading: errno=24

Error 24 is too many open files (from the top of my head).

Try upping max open files for root (and please check if your oracle user
has a nice high ulimit -n too).

> <-0064B377<-readLead()+84<-rpmReadPackageFile()+155Cannot open /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rpm/_rpmmodule.so for reading: errno=24
> <-002B6B60<-PyCFunction_Call()+285<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+18829<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+17663<-PyEval_EvalCodeEx()+2198<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+17398<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+17663<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+17663<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+17663<-PyEval_EvalCodeEx()+2198<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+17398<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+17663<-PyEval_EvalCodeEx()+2198<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+17398<-PyEval_EvalFrame()+17663
> Aborted
> 
> If I start the sync over after the crash, it'll pick up where it left off, so I'm guessing this is a resources issue.
> 
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