468121 - qm-pmac-fast01, qm-pmac02, and qm-pmac03 burning for no reason

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

The following machines are failing with "FAIL: Busted: tp FAIL: browser frozen":

  MacOSX Darwin 8.8.1 talos trunk fast qm-pmac-fast01
  MacOSX Darwin 8.8.1 talos trunk qm-pmac02
  MacOSX Darwin 8.8.1 talos trunk qm-pmac03

Second time Mac Talos has had an issue this week. Note that I didn't notice them because we haven't been taking checkins on this branch while 1.9.0.5 is being worked on.

Comment 1

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

Fall out from scheduled auto-reboots.

Currently being worked on.

Comment 2

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

qm-pmac-fast01 is stuck again.

Comment 3

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

Apache still having trouble starting post-reboot.  I've added specific entries to the firewall to allow opening of port 80.  It's a long shot, but that may be why we are having trouble starting the server.

Comment 4

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

crontab was adjusted to have full path to SystemStarter instead of unqualified path.  Initial test on qm-pmac-fast01 is promising.

FTR, the crontab looks like this:
@reboot ps -axc | grep httpd || /sbin/SystemStarter start "Web Server"
*/5 * * * * ps -axc | grep httpd || /sbin/SystemStarter start "Web Server"

Comment 5

[alice nodelman [:alice] [:anode]]

Correct path in crontab appears to have fixed this up.  This change will have to be a part of the general roll out of auto-rebooting.