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perfSONAR 3.3 spawns "[bwctl] <defunct>" instead of site tests #734

Closed arlake228 closed 9 years ago

arlake228 commented 9 years ago

Original issue 735 created by arlake228 on 2013-06-15T00:28:37.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

  1. Install perfSONAR 3.3 on computer
  2. Configure it to perform bwctl tests between different CMS sites
  3. Wonder why nothing is happening, and then "ps -ef"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect to see multiple "bwctl SOMESITE.OUTTHERE" tests running

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? perfSONAR 3.3, 64 bit, fresh install

Please provide any additional information below.

ps -ef shows multiple lines similar to:

499 19992 2131 0 19:15 ? 00:00:00 [bwctl] <defunct>

User "perfsonar" in /etc/passwd is uid 499, but ps doesn't seem to notice it.

Any idea where I can start debugging this?

arlake228 commented 9 years ago

Comment #1 originally posted by arlake228 on 2013-06-17T13:31:11.000Z:

Is this a NetInstall or LiveCD? I know you said fresh install but if this is a LiveCD has there ever been a previous version of the toolkit on the host in question?

arlake228 commented 9 years ago

Comment #2 originally posted by arlake228 on 2013-06-17T15:18:23.000Z:

Hi Andrew. This is a fresh install from the NetInstall cd. I played around with it for an hour and all I got was defunct bwctl processes. I left it running over the weekend, and it seems to have started working properly, so . You can close this, and thanks.

arlake228 commented 9 years ago

Comment #3 originally posted by arlake228 on 2013-06-17T15:24:07.000Z:

Likely it was caused because NTP wasn't synced properly yet. By design NTP takes time to converge, and unfortunately bwctl can behave a little strange until that happens, which is likely the case here. I will close this for now, but please let us know if it gives you further issue.