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[Gordon Chung <address@concealed>]

Thanks Peter. I am more and  more leaning towards the cause being a hardware 
fault even though I can’t prove it.

Regards
Gordon

Gordon Chung
Unix Section
University of Edinburgh   
IT Infrastructure Division
Information Services                                                          
             
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The Kings Buildings                                      
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On 12 Aug 2015, at 15:42, Peter Polkinghorne 
<address@concealed> wrote:

> 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
> Information Services                                                        
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