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Bug 1216085

Summary: traced bash scripts cannot connect to pmdabash
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Miloš Prchlík <mprchlik>
Component: pcpAssignee: Nathan Scott <nathans>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Michal Kolar <mkolar>
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Version: 7.1CC: brolley, fche, lberk, mbenitez, mcermak, mgoodwin, mkolar, nathans
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Description Miloš Prchlík 2015-04-28 13:02:44 UTC
Description of problem:

I tried pmdabash, following the instructions in manual page.

[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# ./Install 
You will need to choose an appropriate configuration for installation of
the "bash" Performance Metrics Domain Agent (PMDA).

  collector     collect performance statistics on this system
  monitor       allow this system to monitor local and/or remote systems
  both          collector and monitor configuration for this system

Please enter c(ollector) or m(onitor) or b(oth) [b] 
Install bash as a daemon or dso agent? [daemon] 
PMCD should communicate with the bash daemon via a pipe or a socket? [pipe] 
Updating the Performance Metrics Name Space (PMNS) ...
Terminate PMDA if already installed ...
Updating the PMCD control file, and notifying PMCD ...
Check bash metrics have appeared ... 10 metrics and 0 values
[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# pminfo -f bash

bash.xtrace.numclients
No value(s) available!

bash.xtrace.maxmem
No value(s) available!

bash.xtrace.queuemem
No value(s) available!

bash.xtrace.count
No value(s) available!

bash.xtrace.records
No value(s) available!

bash.xtrace.parameters.pid
No value(s) available!

bash.xtrace.parameters.parent
No value(s) available!

bash.xtrace.parameters.lineno
No value(s) available!

bash.xtrace.parameters.function
No value(s) available!

bash.xtrace.parameters.command
No value(s) available!
[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# 
[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# 
[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# 
[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# cat t.sh
#!/bin/bash

source $PCP_DIR/etc/pcp.sh

pcp_trace on $@       # enable tracing
echo $?

[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# 
[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# 
[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# 
[root@pes-guest-79 bash]# ./t.sh
<after staring at frozen script for a while, Ctrl+C is applied...>
^C/usr/share/pcp/lib/bashproc.sh: line 57: /var/lib/pcp/tmp/pmdabash/24373: Interrupted system call

 56             # setup link between xtrace & fifo
 57             exec 99>"${PCP_TRACE_DATA}"

According to strace it really tries to connect to its pipe:

23856      0.000093 open("/var/lib/pcp/tmp/pmdabash/23856", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted if SA_RESTART is set)
23856      5.569255 --- SIGINT {si_signo=SIGINT, si_code=SI_KERNEL, si_value={int=0, ptr=0x7f5200000000}} ---


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

pcp-3.9.10-8.el7
bash-4.2.46-12.el7

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Comment 5 Nathan Scott 2016-05-11 03:17:26 UTC
Low priority, & has not reached top of the priority list - shifting to 7.4.

Comment 6 Nathan Scott 2016-12-13 19:30:16 UTC
Fixed by upstream commit 3d8bac742e15add.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 18:29:33 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.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2017:1968