Bug 132437
| Summary: | /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron: numerous lines "zcat: stdout: broken pipe" | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Berthold Cogel <cogel> | ||||
| Component: | man | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | eparis, erik, joshkel, simon, someone, tao, t.h.amundsen, uxadm | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 19:05:36 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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yes, I have this problem on many WS3 too. If running makewhatis manually, everythig works as expected, but cronjob produce errors. Lunev I'm also seeing the problem, on AS3 and AS 2.1. It started a few weeks ago, at around the same time on both platforms. can you tell me which two packages? i can't reproduce over here. for example makewhatis Issue is seen on system with man-1.5k-10 Created attachment 104266 [details]
List of all rpms on a 2.1 machine experiencing problem
Comment 7: I'm not seeing this on my up2dated AS machine (with man-1.5k-10). I suspect that a package has been installed that has a bogus encoding in the man page, or the system is running in a wierd locale. I'll take a look at the rpm list and see if I can recreate it. I have man-1.5k-10 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 3) This is from one of the rebuild projects (centos 3.3) but it's happening there too and it's from one of the following pkgs kernel-smp 2.4.21-20.EL.c0.i686 kernel 2.4.21-20.EL.c0.i686 rpm-libs 4.2.3-10.i386 bind-libs 10:9.2.4-EL3_10.i386 cups 1:1.1.17-13.3.13.i386 rpm 4.2.3-10.i386 joe 2.9.8-5.i386 mod_authz_ldap 0.22-5.i386 php 4.3.2-14.ent.i386 libgcj-ssa 3.5ssa-0.20030801.48.i386 openldap 2.0.27-17.i386 libgcc 3.2.3-42.i386 tux 3.2.19-2.i386 cups-libs 1:1.1.17-13.3.13.i386 rpmdb-redhat 3.0-0.20040916.i386 libgcj 3.2.3-42.i386 vixie-cron 3.0.1-75.1.i386 XFree86-libs-data 4.3.0-68.EL.i386 rpm-python 4.2.3-10.i386 procps 2.0.17-10.i386 prelink 0.3.2-2.EL.i386 krb5-workstation 1.2.7-28.i386 laus-libs 0.1-65RHEL3.i386 ppp 2.4.1-14.1.i386 ntsysv 1.3.11-0.3.i386 httpd 2.0.46-40.ent.centos.1.i386 comps 3.0.0centos-0.20040916.i386 perl 2:5.8.0-88.7.i386 kernel-utils 1:2.4-8.37.6.i386 hwdata 0.101.12-1.noarch kudzu 1.1.22.4-1.centos.0.i386 ypserv 2.8-7.i386 grep 2.5.1-24.1.i386 lha 1.14i-10.4.i386 sysklogd 1.4.1-12.3.i386 ethtool 1.8-3.3.i386 bind-utils 10:9.2.4-EL3_10.i386 chkconfig 1.3.11-0.3.i386 postfix 2:2.0.16-14.RHEL3.i386 dhcp 1:3.0pl2-6.14.1.i386 redhat-config-securitylevel-tui 1.2.9-2.i386 nfs-utils 1.0.6-31EL.i386 ncompress 4.2.4-38.i386 sysstat 4.0.7-4.centos.3.i386 rhpl 0.110.6-1.centos.0.i386 modutils 2.4.25-13.EL.i386 nscd 2.3.2-95.27.i386 at 3.1.8-48.ent.i386 popt 1.8.2-10.i386 MAKEDEV 3.3.12.3-1.centos.0.i386 openssl 0.9.7a-33.12.i686 schedutils 1.3.0-5.i386 libcap 1.10-15.1.i386 initscripts 7.31.16.EL-1.centos.0.i386 mdadm 1.5.0-9.i386 libstdc++ 3.2.3-42.i386 glibc-common 2.3.2-95.27.i386 nss_ldap 207-11.i386 grub 0.93-4.3.i386 fontconfig 2.2.1-13.i386 XFree86-Mesa-libGL 4.3.0-68.EL.i386 passwd 0.68-3.1.i386 xinetd 2:2.3.12-6.3E.i386 tzdata 2004b-1.EL.noarch parted 1.6.3-29.3.i386 redhat-config-network-tui 1.2.63-1.centos.0.noarch glibc 2.3.2-95.27.i686 readline 4.3-5.2.i386 sysreport 1.3.7.2-1.noarch bash 2.05b-29.0.3.centos.0.i386 XFree86-libs 4.3.0-68.EL.i386 dhclient 1:3.0pl2-6.14.1.i386 krb5-libs 1.2.7-28.i386 mod_ssl 1:2.0.46-40.ent.centos.1.i386 dev 3.3.12.3-1.centos.0.i386 rdist 1:6.1.5-35.30.1.i386 shadow-utils 2:4.0.3-20.05.i386 lvm 1.0.8-5.i386 pam 0.75-58.i386 autofs 1:4.1.3-12.i386 rsync 2.5.7-5.3E.i386 That might help reduce the set to look for a broken man page somewhat. comment 10: what locale is it running in? For our System it's LANG=de_DE.UTF-8. It's LANG=en_US on our RHEL 2.1 systems, and LANG=en_US.UTF-8 for our RHEL 3.0 systems. Count me as one that experiences this on hundreds of boxes every week. Some systems have 3rd-party RPMs, some have not. We use LANG=en_US for all RHEL3 systems. Running in en_US.UTF-8 I'm upgrading a system letter by letter: yum update a\* ; makewhatis -u -w on a system that's not been updated to u3, yet. When I find the offending letter I'll let you know I think you will find that it will always work when makewhatis is run by hand. If you are willing to test one letter at a time, instead after you update a letter make sure you run makewhatis out of cron. I read the /etc/cron.daily script -it's not exactly rocket science. Why would it fail from cron but not when run from the prompt? Currently it is not known why it would work from the command line and not from cron. If you look at what both of the people in Comment 1 and Comment 2 said this is the case and is what we are exploring. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64836 *** If you dig deep enough in history you'll see that this problem was observed at least as far back as RH 7.3. Alan Cox surmised that it was a problem with cron's configuration of signals when running jobs. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64836 Comment #18: because cron has a different environment than you have and is probably missing something in your PATH. Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040806 Description of problem: After updating some packages on two systems cron complains about "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" and produces mails to root with about 6000 lines: /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron: zcat: stdout: Broken pipe zcat: stdout: Broken pipe ..... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-1.5k-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Wait for cron 2. 3. Additional info: See bug # 64836 If running makewhatis manually, everythig works as expected.