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List:       evms-devel
Subject:    Re: [Evms-devel] [Nikolaus@rath.org: Bug#199400: evms fails mysteriously if it cannot write logfile]
From:       Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus () rath ! org>
Date:       2003-06-30 22:08:11
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On Mon, 30 Juni 03, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 01:48:57PM -0500, Kevin Corry wrote:
> 
> > I am running current CVS. I made a spare filesystem and mounted it read-only 
> > on /varfoo/. I editted my /etc/evms.conf and specified the log file to be 
> > written to /varfoo/evms-engine.log. (You can also do this by specifying the 
> > -l option to any of the UIs.)  Running any of the UIs produced no error 
> > messages (and of course no log in /varfoo/).
> > 
> > Are you sure you have evms 2.0.1 running on your initrd, or could it be 
> > version 2.0.0? I thought this bug was fixed between those two releases. In 
> > any case, this bug, and a similar one involving the lock-file, should be 
> > fixed in the very-soon-to-be-released 2.1.0.
> 
> Hmm...maybe the problem was with the lock file instead of the log[sic] file?
> Nikolaus, can you confirm this?

Yes, that's quite possible. I haven't looked very carefully at the
strace output after having figured out what the error was, maybe I
missread it. 

In addition, my solution (mounting /var on tmpfs) would have solved the
problem in both cases.

Yes, I'm sure of using 2.0.1 in initrd too.

bye
Nikolaus



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