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[Peter Polkinghorne <address@concealed>]

The message about previous crash from Sympa is what I have seen, when Sympa 
not shutdown cleanly. It does not mean Sympa caused the crash (i.e. your 
reboot). So I would say just a symptom of the reboot. I have had Sympa issues 
at times (e.g. badly encoded MIME) but have never had Sympa crash the box it 
was running on and would think that unlikely but not impossible.

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-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed 
[mailto:address@concealed] On Behalf Of Gordon Chung
Sent: 12 August 2015 14:58
To: address@concealed
Subject: [sympa-users] Sympa possibly causing server to reboot

Hi,

Last night my mailing lists server rebooted. After looking at system and 
service processor(Sunfire x4150 running Solaris10x86) logs it does not look 
like it was caused by a hardware fault. I did however receive emails from 
Sympa with subject "Previous process crashed" and the Sympa logs seem to 
suggest something was not right.

Excerpt from logs:

Aug 11 23+Iz5K
LSMWKpiUTlFOe1yC4GvDNoS5e3I6RjWM7NMc2o6iXAkAXFxpoYOfDlfNTGVS
SAdbTNoF9eWs+Q/1oKzB3R7oAOkAfX+VEqfEEJVOHbHIgHKcx0H4uJ0LZWHC
1hEynsemyjh2mmwva1oe6/6pzPAmP4mFOkEEGLCTHyHlGgE5iVa6Aug 12 00:55:56 
mlist1.is.ed.ac.uk sympa[896]: [ID 702911 local1.notice] notice 
tools::write_pid() Previous process 28375 died suddenly ; notifying listmaster
Aug 12 00:55:57 mlist1.is.ed.ac.uk bulk[901]: [ID 702911 local1.notice] 
notice tools::write_pid() Previous process 28377 died suddenly ; notifying 
listmaster
Aug 12 00:56:02 mlist1.is.ed.ac.uk bulk[901]: [ID 702911 local1.notice] 
notice bulk.pl 6.1.17 Started
Aug 12 00:56:02 mlist1.is.ed.ac.uk bounced[911]: [ID 702911 local1.notice] 
notice bounced Started
Aug 12 00:56:06 mlist1.is.ed.ac.uk archived[906]: [ID 702911 local1.notice] 
notice archived 6.1.17 Started


I can't recall in the past, dying Sympa processes causing the system to 
reboot. Has anyone experienced this before?

Regards
Gordon

Gordon Chung
Unix Section
University of Edinburgh   
IT Infrastructure Division
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