Bug 1719168

Summary:	collectl does not stay running after a "systemctl start collectl"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Kent Engström <kent>
Component:	collectl	Assignee:	Dan Horák <dan>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel7	CC:	dan, kzak
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Kent Engström 2019-06-11 08:42:31 UTC

Description of problem:

On some of our compute nodes, collect does not start reliably.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

collectl-4.2.0-1.el7.noarch

How reproducible:

Not 100%

Steps to Reproduce:

systemctl start collectl

Actual results:

For the affected nodes, collectl runs for a short time and then the process is gone.

Expected results:

collectl stays running to collect data.

Additional info:

Starting collectl manually, using "collectl -D /etc/collectl.conf" seems to work 100% of the time. We suspect that the the systemd unit file collectl.service should declare "Type=forking" instead of defaulting to "Type=simple". When we tried changed this locally (using an override file), we got it to start 100% of the time.

Comment 1 Dan Horák 2019-06-11 11:33:28 UTC

You are right, collectl is deamonizing when -D is given, so type forking is right.

Comment 2 Kent Engström 2019-06-11 13:13:47 UTC

OK.

As the -D option is needed for operation as a service and is part of the
installed /etc/sysconfig/collectl file, will you release a fixed EPEL 7 package with Type=forking?

Comment 3 Dan Horák 2019-06-11 13:22:28 UTC

yes, that's the plan, likely together with an update to 4.3.0

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2019-06-11 14:22:53 UTC

FEDORA-2019-cb70d8f7d9 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-cb70d8f7d9

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-06-11 14:22:57 UTC

FEDORA-2019-cbbe626661 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-cbbe626661

Comment 6 Kent Engström 2019-06-11 14:53:28 UTC

Thanks, have tested the RPM from https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1285608 build successfully.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-06-12 01:30:13 UTC

collectl-4.3.0-5.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-cbbe626661

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-06-12 01:31:51 UTC

collectl-4.3.0-5.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-cb70d8f7d9

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-06-12 02:08:37 UTC

collectl-4.3.0-5.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2019-855095f03e

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-06-19 22:45:28 UTC

collectl-4.3.0-5.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2019-06-20 03:52:45 UTC

collectl-4.3.0-5.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2019-07-03 00:43:16 UTC

collectl-4.3.0-5.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.