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Bug 1265798 - "systemctl start ntpd.service" hanged
Summary: "systemctl start ntpd.service" hanged
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1266479
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: systemd
Version: 7.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-23 19:05 UTC by Jan Stancek
Modified: 2015-09-25 12:00 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-09-25 12:00:47 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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systemctl core (captured with gcore) (250.20 KB, application/octet-stream)
2015-09-23 19:07 UTC, Jan Stancek 		no flags Details
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Description Jan Stancek 2015-09-23 19:05:52 UTC 
Description of problem:
"systemctl start ntpd.service" didn't complete in ~2 hours.

ntpd is still reported as "inactive" with no sign that it's starting:

# systemctl status ntpd
● ntpd.service - Network Time Service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Wed 2015-09-23 11:17:10 EDT; 3h 27min ago
  Process: 19146 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpd -u ntp:ntp $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 19147 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Sep 23 10:50:34 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com ntpd[19147]: 0.0.0.0 0615 05 clock_sync
Sep 23 11:00:30 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com ntpd[19147]: Listen normally on 9 eth0 2002:102:304:1234:5ef3:fcff:fe85:b71 UDP 123
Sep 23 11:00:30 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com ntpd[19147]: new interface(s) found: waking up resolver
Sep 23 11:05:40 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com ntpd[19147]: Deleting interface #9 eth0, 2002:102:304:1234:5ef3:fcff:fe85:b71#123, interface sta...10 secs
Sep 23 11:09:28 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com ntpd[19147]: Listen normally on 10 eth0 2002:102:304:1234:5ef3:fcff:fe85:b71 UDP 123
Sep 23 11:09:28 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com ntpd[19147]: new interface(s) found: waking up resolver
Sep 23 11:14:42 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com ntpd[19147]: Deleting interface #10 eth0, 2002:102:304:1234:5ef3:fcff:fe85:b71#123, interface st...14 secs
Sep 23 11:17:09 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com ntpd[19147]: ntpd exiting on signal 15
Sep 23 11:17:09 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopping Network Time Service...
Sep 23 11:17:10 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped Network Time Service.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

Here's part of process tree:

23658 ?        S      0:00              \_ make run
 9840 ?        S      0:00              |   \_ /bin/bash ./runtest.sh
15165 ?        S      0:00              |       \_ /bin/systemctl start ntpd.service

I managed to capture journalctl and core from systemctl before harness watchdog rebooted system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-219-14.el7

How reproducible:
single instance

Steps to Reproduce:
unknown

Actual results:
systemctl start hangs

Expected results:
systemctl doesn't hang

Additional info:
Comment 2 Jan Stancek 2015-09-23 19:07:34 UTC 
Created attachment 1076288 [details]
systemctl core (captured with gcore)
Comment 4 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-09-25 07:35:20 UTC 
Hmm those lines are the real issue:

Sep 23 12:36:35 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.

Do you have a reproducer?
Comment 5 Jan Stancek 2015-09-25 07:42:53 UTC 
(In reply to Lukáš Nykrýn from comment #4)
> Hmm those lines are the real issue:
> 
> Sep 23 12:36:35 ibm-p720-01-lp5.rhts.eng.bos.redhat.com systemd[1]: Looping
> too fast. Throttling execution a little.
> 
> Do you have a reproducer?

No. Any hints on what data to grab in case I see it again?
Comment 6 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-09-25 07:59:12 UTC 
Unfortunately no. The events in the reproducer could lead us to the culprit.
Comment 7 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-09-25 12:00:47 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1266479 ***
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