Bug 710315 - named goes into busy loop if working directory not writable
Summary: named goes into busy loop if working directory not writable
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 709205
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bind
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: Adam Tkac
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-03 02:32 UTC by Matthew Gillen
Modified: 2013-04-30 23:49 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-06-08 09:03:11 UTC
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Description Matthew Gillen 2011-06-03 02:32:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
I updated bind today (to version 9.7.4-0.1.b1.fc14), and when I restarted named, my CPU usage went to 100% (top confirmed 'named' was using as much available CPU time on a single processor as it could).  /var/log/messages had this line after the restart:
 named[9713]: the working directory is not writable

The permissions on /var/named were:
drwxr-x---. 5 root named 4096 Jun  2 15:35 /var/named/

Adding group-write permissions to that directory made the problem go away (i.e. named now uses a sane amount of CPU time).  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9.7.4-0.1.b1.fc14

How reproducible:
Make /var/named not writable by the named user
Comment 1 Daniel Veillard 2011-06-06 03:03:35 UTC 
I got that too on a couple of F14 machines apparently after update to
bind-9.7.4-0.1.b1.fc14.x86_64

Changing the permissions as indicated seems to fix this,

Daniel
Comment 2 Adam Tkac 2011-06-08 09:03:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 709205 ***
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