Bug 971673

Summary: RHEV-H will hung for a long time if simultaneously operation the logging menu on local host and serial console
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: cshao <cshao>
Component: ovirt-nodeAssignee: Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.4CC: acathrow, bsarathy, cboyle, fdeutsch, gouyang, hadong, huiwa, jboggs, leiwang, mburns, ovirt-maint, tlavigne, yaniwang, ycui
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Fixed In Version: ovirt-node-3.0.1-2.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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The hypervisor was hanging for a long time if simultaneously operating the logging menu on local host and serial console. This has been fixed using a transaction lock (python-lockfile) so the hypervisor no longer hangs.
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Last Closed: 2014-01-21 19:35:21 UTC Type: Bug
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Description cshao 2013-06-07 06:22:15 UTC
Created attachment 757991 [details]
hung

Description of problem:
RHEV-H will hung for a long time(more than 5 mins) if simultaneously operation the logging menu on local host and serial console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhev-hypervisor6-6.4-20130528.0.el6_4

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEV-H, configure network.
2. In local host: Enter logging menu and set rsyslog address, and move cursor to apply option but don't press "enter" key.(e.g. 10.66.10.110)
3. In serial console: Enter logging menu and set different rsyslog address. and move cursor to apply option but don't press "enter" key.(e.g. 10.66.10.111)
4. Press "enter" key on local host and serial console simultaneously.

Actual results:
RHEV-H will hung on "applying configuration" for a long time(more than 5 mins)

Expected results:
RHEV-H can receive the latest configure and no hung.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Mike Burns 2013-06-07 11:52:04 UTC
seems we might need to add some sort of transaction locking so that we don't try this twice at the same time.  

Fabian, any thoughts?

Comment 3 Fabian Deutsch 2013-06-10 09:02:36 UTC
(In reply to Mike Burns from comment #2)
> seems we might need to add some sort of transaction locking so that we don't
> try this twice at the same time.  
> 
> Fabian, any thoughts?

Yes, using a lock is probably a good idea.
I'd use a file based locking mechanism to have an inter process locking mechanism. python-lockfile is a candidate for this.

Comment 4 Fabian Deutsch 2013-09-17 08:55:03 UTC
This has been fixed upstream in commit d605941643269611787159d70e69ca8ad2069001 and was merged during the 3.0 cycle.

Comment 5 Fabian Deutsch 2013-09-17 08:56:44 UTC
(In reply to Fabian Deutsch from comment #4)
> This has been fixed upstream in commit
> d605941643269611787159d70e69ca8ad2069001 and was merged during the 3.0 cycle.

The expected behavior is that an exception is raised when a new transaction is initiated (when pressing <Save> on a page) while another one is still running.

Comment 10 cshao 2013-10-25 03:16:26 UTC
Test version:
rhev-hypervisor6-6.5-20131017.0
ovirt-node-3.0.1-4.el6.noarch

Test steps:
1. Install RHEV-H, configure network.
2. In local host: Enter logging menu and set rsyslog address, and move cursor to apply option but don't press "enter" key.(e.g. 10.66.10.110)
3. In serial console: Enter logging menu and set different rsyslog address. and move cursor to apply option but don't press "enter" key.(e.g. 10.66.10.111)
4. Press "enter" key on local host and serial console simultaneously.

Test result:
RHEV-H can receive the latest configure and no hung.

So the bug is fixed, change bug status to VERIFIED.

Comment 13 Cheryn Tan 2013-11-08 00:36:50 UTC
This bug is currently attached to errata RHBA-2013:15277. If this change is not to be documented in the text for this errata please either remove it from the errata, set the requires_doc_text flag to minus (-), or leave a "Doc Text" value of "--no tech note required" if you do not have permission to alter the flag.

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Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-21 19:35:21 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0033.html