http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 User m.munnix@redcross.be added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c1 --- Comment #1 from michel munnix <m.munnix@redcross.be> 2009-10-31 02:58:01 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=324981) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=324981) /var/log --- Comment #2 from michel munnix <m.munnix@redcross.be> 2009-10-31 02:58:02 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=324982) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=324982) /var/log -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 User m.munnix@redcross.be added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c3 --- Comment #3 from michel munnix <m.munnix@redcross.be> 2009-10-31 03:01:01 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=324983) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=324983) /etc/rc.d -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 User werner@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c4 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mls@novell.com --- Comment #4 from Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> 2009-11-02 03:22:23 MST --- Report the numbers reported by cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max cat /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max and also report which kernel you're using. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 User werner@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c6 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |m.munnix@redcross.be --- Comment #6 from Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> 2009-11-03 03:40:19 MST --- The message: Uhh, too many forks, PIDs got reused, we're confused at 4932 startpar 369 fork -513 is not part of startpar, nor of the bash, nor of the kernel, nor of the glibc. Do you have installed and enabled some monitoring tools? This because the message is senseless as startpar will fork always for every boot and runlevel script two jobs, one of the script its self and one for a pty/tty pair for the standard error and standard output of the script. This is normal ... and yes it may force that pid numbers get reused if the largest pid has reached 32768. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 User werner@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c8 Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |werner@novell.com AssignedTo|werner@novell.com |coolo@novell.com --- Comment #8 from Dr. Werner Fink <werner@novell.com> 2009-11-03 05:49:45 MST --- Yes found it also by scanning the packages: Uhh, too many forks, PIDs got reused, we're confused was found by grep within preload. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 User matz@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c10 --- Comment #10 from Michael Matz <matz@novell.com> 2009-11-03 06:12:36 MST --- The message will now read "prepare_preload warning: Too many forks, PIDs got reused, we're confused at .." When the message occurs this means that during the normal bootup process so many processes got started that some PIDs were reused which confuses prepare_preload that needs to relyably relate PIDs with commands and a process tree. It will simply stop at that point and not preload anything further. This usually means that one of the started processes is written in a stupid way and forks like there's no tomorrow. You can see which one it is by looking at /var/cache/preload/trace.gz, probably near the end. One of the processes there will fork like mad. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 User matz@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c12 --- Comment #12 from Michael Matz <matz@novell.com> 2009-11-04 05:29:34 MST --- Oh, this is reall something else, it's the occurrence of these three lines: 5.870 348 startpar fork -513 11.317 1280 startpar fork -513 11.385 1280 startpar fork -513 which confuse us. This is actually an error return code, not a PID, but a special one (ERESTARTNOINTR), which won't be seen by user code, but can be seen by the tracing system tap. I've made sure now to ignore negative process IDs. coolo: you might want to update the package. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@gmx.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |sven.burmeister@gmx.net --- Comment #14 from Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@gmx.net> 2009-11-15 09:44:21 UTC --- I see this too. Might this be the cause for bug 551705? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 --- Comment #16 from Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@gmx.net> 2009-11-15 10:11:24 UTC --- In my case it seems to be nepomuk causing the issue. Yet it might only happen because the boot process is stopped for 1,5 minutes and KDE is already loading all its components before it continues. If that was not the case, nepomuk might load after preload. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 Stefan Tittel <bugreports@tittel.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bugreports@tittel.net --- Comment #18 from Stefan Tittel <bugreports@tittel.net> 2009-11-16 14:12:38 UTC --- This problem can also happen if RUN_PARALLEL is "no" in /etc/sysconfig/boot. And the process mentioned in the warning message can change indeed. During my current boot it is: Uhh, too many forks, PIDs got reused, we're confused at 22364 hald-runner 1594 fork -513 I am not quite sure how serious this message is. Stephan says it's just a warning, Michael says that the preloader will stop preloading. Anyways, it looks scary, a fix would be most welcome. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c20 --- Comment #20 from Stefan Tittel <bugreports@tittel.net> 2009-11-17 15:41:23 UTC --- tittel@earth:/$ grep -i "too many" /usr/bin/prepare_preload print STDERR "Uhh, too many forks, PIDs got reused, we're confused\n"; So the message seems to be thrown by /usr/bin/prepare_preload, which is part of the package "preload". -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c22 Swamp Workflow Management <swamp@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status Whiteboard| |maint:running:28926 --- Comment #22 from Swamp Workflow Management <swamp@suse.com> 2009-11-19 21:06:59 UTC --- The SWAMPID for this issue is 28926. Please submit the patch and patchinfo file using this ID. (https://swamp.suse.de/webswamp/wf/28926) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c24 Tamás Németh <nice@titanic.nyme.hu> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |nice@titanic.nyme.hu --- Comment #24 from Tamás Németh <nice@titanic.nyme.hu> 2009-11-23 16:02:32 UTC --- I can confirm this on 64bit openSUSE 11.2 with KDE. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c27 --- Comment #27 from Robert Davies <rob.opensuse.linux@googlemail.com> 2009-12-01 10:13:13 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=330226) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=330226) rcsdiff -u patch to avoid abandoning pre-load wrongly with misleading error message about pid wrap-round Yes please update! This is very frequent error. Thanks to Michael Matz's clear explanation in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c12 it was very simple & quick to knock off & test a fix. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c29 --- Comment #29 from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@novell.com> 2009-12-01 17:23:45 CET --- somebody need to submit a package and patchinfo -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c30 Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #30 from Stephan Kulow <coolo@novell.com> 2009-12-02 19:35:06 UTC --- Task "Add patchinfo for openSUSE product" was finished. Patch is in sr25442 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551635#c32 Swamp Workflow Management <swamp@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status Whiteboard|maint:running:28926 |maint:running:28926 | |maint:released:11.2:29281 --- Comment #32 from Swamp Workflow Management <swamp@suse.com> 2009-12-09 00:18:53 UTC --- Update released for: preload, preload-debuginfo, preload-debugsource, preload-kmp-default, preload-kmp-default-debuginfo, preload-kmp-desktop, preload-kmp-desktop-debuginfo Products: openSUSE 11.2 (debug, i586, x86_64) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.