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.
You are right, collectl is deamonizing when -D is given, so type forking is right.
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?
yes, that's the plan, likely together with an update to 4.3.0
FEDORA-2019-cb70d8f7d9 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-cb70d8f7d9
FEDORA-2019-cbbe626661 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-cbbe626661
Thanks, have tested the RPM from https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1285608 build successfully.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.