Re: [mv] Truncated pages

["Barry Treahy, Jr." <Treahy@mmaz.com>]

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I run with Roxen and those folks have tend to ignore the problem and stated that it must
be a problem with the OS; in my cases, I'm running Linux with 2.0.35 and 2.2.14 kernels
and both appear to have the truncating problem.  Roxen's statement made it sound that
Apache must have coded around the OS flaw, why Roxen didn't or won't is beyond me, but if
this is a true flaw in the OS, perhaps the Apache fix only applies to Linux and not DEC
Unix.

Regards,

Barry

Joe Kupferling wrote:

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>
> I posted a message almost a month ago explaining how MV appeared to be
> truncating the pages.  All of the replies I got pointed to the version of
> Apache I was running, version 1.2.5.  Those of you who replied said version
> 1.2.5 had problems and that you solved your truncating issues by upgrading.
> It took a while, but our ISP finally upgraded Apache to version 1.3.12, but
> the pages are still being truncated, even after I reinstalled MV.
>
> I've had our ISP look at the Apache logs, there aren't any signs that the
> kernel process for the number of child processes has been exceeded, so it
> doesn't look like resources are being depleted by MV.  Nothing has been
> printed in the catalog error log, but I do get one error in the MV error
> log:
>
>     START server (24189) (INET and UNIX)
>     INET mode server failed to start on port 7787: bind: Address already in
> use         at /users/redhook/mvend/lib/Vend/Server.pm line 995.
>     Continuing in UNIX MODE ONLY
>
> Clearly you can see I'm running this on port 7787 because another user is
> already running MV.  I checked all files containing any instances of port
> 7786, changed those to 7787 just to be sure, and ran the compile_link
> program.  After recompiling, I also did another makecat just to be sure.  I
> still got truncated pages.  Now here's another thing that caught my eye,
> when I created the first catalog, this error popped up:
>
>     checking for socket in -lsocket... no
>     checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... no
>
> Upon looking in the config.log file in the /mvend/src/ directory, it says:
>
>     configure:696: checking for socket in -lsocket
>     configure:715: cc -o conftest -g   conftest.c -lsocket   1>&5
>     ld:
>     Can't locate file for: -lsocket
>
> and another few lines which read:
>
>     configure:762: cc -o conftest -g   conftest.c -lnsl   1>&5
>     ld:
>     Can't locate file for: -lnsl
>
> In addition, my IS manager and I looked for a pattern in the truncated
> pages.  There is no real pattern, after reloading, the pages appear to be
> truncated in a slightly different spot everytime.
>
> And that, more or less, is where I'm at.  If you want to see this for
> yourself, go to http://www.redhook.com/rhtest
>
> Details:
> MV 4.04a
> Apache 1.3.12
> DEC Alpha running Digital UNIX 4.0D
> Perl version 5.005_03
>
> Hopefully someone knows how or why this is happening.
>
> Joe K.
>
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