Bug 588148

Summary: Ejabberd's startup hangs with erlang >= R13B-04
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Florent Le Coz <louiz>
Component: ejabberdAssignee: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 12CC: lemenkov, yaneti
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Description Florent Le Coz 2010-05-02 21:00:40 UTC
Description of problem:
When starting ejabberd with erlang-R13B-04, it takes 100% of the CPU, and it just does respond (nobody can connect to it)
Downgrading to erlang-R13B-01 solves the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
erlang >= R13B-04

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ejabberdctl start
2. try to connect to the server with any client
3. fail to connect and see the CPU taken by ejabberd

Comment 1 Peter Lemenkov 2010-05-03 04:55:00 UTC
I can't confirm - my own ejabberd starts and stops fine. What ejabberd version you're using?

Could you, please, attach /var/log/ejabberd/ejabberd.log and /var/log/ejabberd/erlang.log ?

Please, remove all sensitive information (IP addresses, usernames, etc) from these logs before posting them. Also you can send me them via email.

Comment 2 Florent Le Coz 2010-05-03 12:14:32 UTC
The /var/log/ejabberd/ejabberd.log and /var/log/ejabberd/erlang.log files don't seem very useful, but I attached them anyway.

But I have some erl_crash*.dump in /var/log/ejabberd/ too, and I think it may help understand the problem.

I have five of them, but I attached only one because I think they are very similar.

Comment 3 Florent Le Coz 2010-05-03 12:15:34 UTC
Created attachment 410959 [details]
erl crash dump

Comment 4 Florent Le Coz 2010-05-03 12:16:07 UTC
Created attachment 410960 [details]
ejabberd log

Comment 5 Florent Le Coz 2010-05-03 12:18:20 UTC
Created attachment 410961 [details]
erlang log

Comment 6 Florent Le Coz 2010-05-20 22:32:35 UTC
Any news here…?

Comment 7 Peter Lemenkov 2010-05-22 10:44:52 UTC
Nope - no news here. I looked at erl_rash.dump, but didn't found any clues fso far, unfortunately.

Just to be sure - you're using both ejabberd and erlang from Fedora repositories, right?

Comment 8 Yanko Kaneti 2010-05-26 08:19:02 UTC
Let me share my little frustration experiment that might be the same thing.
- install ejabberd on an uptodate f12
- have a firewall blocking everything heading to the epmd port (4369)
- try starting ejabberd

The result here is loong wait followed by not working ejabberd, some erl crash dumps in /var/log/ejabberd/  and no indication of what went wrong in any logs that I could find.  Its basically impossible to diagnose for a relative newbie in the erlang/ejabber world.  Removing the firewall makes everything work again.

Comment 9 Yanko Kaneti 2010-05-26 08:20:18 UTC
When I said blocking I ment dropping, say
# iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 4369 -j DROP

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Comment 11 Peter Lemenkov 2010-11-08 07:44:42 UTC
Ping, Florent. Could you, please, specify the status of this ticket. 

I'm pretty sure that this issue existed either due to misconfiguration of system in question or due to mysterious alien's X-rays. In the first case we still need to work on this.

Also could you please try to reproduce on F-13 (with R13B) or F-14 (with R14B) because F-12 will be eoled very soon.

Frankly speaking I still have no clue on what happened with your ejabberd setup and why downgrading to R13B-01 helped to solve this. I suspect that during upgrade to R13B-04 some of your applications were upgraded too and this caused some mysterious side-effect (perhaps similar to one, described by Yanko in the comments above).

Comment 12 Florent Le Coz 2010-11-08 17:58:13 UTC
To be frank, I didn't test recently, since I no longer use ejabberd…

I could test again on F-14 with R14B, just to know if it's still broken with me.
I'll do that in a few days.

Unless it's fixed magically in R14B, this bug is still valid. But if I'm the only one getting it (and since I cannot really help finding the reason), I don't know if it's important. At least for my personal use, it's not.

Comment 13 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 15:10:47 UTC
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