Bug 1326026

Summary: Satellite 6.2 beta: Archive /var/log/* data causes service restart failures
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: Pradeep Kumar Surisetty <psuriset>
Component: Audit LogAssignee: satellite6-bugs <satellite6-bugs>
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Version: 6.2.0CC: bbuckingham, xdmoon
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Hardware: x86_64   
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Last Closed: 2016-04-26 12:42:12 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Pradeep Kumar Surisetty 2016-04-11 15:39:35 UTC
Description of problem:

To monitor  few latest failures, archived all the data /var/log/* and restarted katello services.  mongod, httpd, foreman-proxy fails to restart


[root@satserver log]# ls
old.tgz

[root@satserver log]# katello-service  restart
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<snip>

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop  mongod.service

Success!
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  mongod.service
Job for mongod.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mongod.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  postgresql.service

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  qpidd.service

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  qdrouterd.service

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  tomcat.service

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  foreman-proxy.service
Job for foreman-proxy.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status foreman-proxy.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  pulp_celerybeat.service

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  pulp_resource_manager.service

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  pulp_workers.service

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  httpd.service
Job for httpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status httpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start  foreman-tasks.service
Job for foreman-tasks.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status foreman-tasks.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Some services failed to start: mongod,foreman-proxy,httpd,foreman-tasks
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untarring this helps to restart again. 


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How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Archive  /var/log/* data
 [root@satserver log]# ls
  old.tgz

2. restart katello services
    katello-service  restart

3.  Some services failed to start: mongod,foreman-proxy,httpd,foreman-tasks

Actual results:

Few services fails to start

Expected results:

All services should start

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brad Buckingham 2016-04-26 12:42:12 UTC
Removing the logs from /var/log in order to archive is not the ideal solution.  The recommendation is to utilize logrotate vs rm/archive.