clientupdate related bug?! need a debug switch for clientupdate

[Asif Iqbal]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a list of hosts with CLASS:myclass and I have a tar file
>> newimage.tar file in ~hobbit/server/download dir
>>
>> In my ~hobbit/server/etc/client-local.cfg file I added this entry
>>
>>    [myclass]
>>    clientversion:newimage
>>
>> This image suppose to add a new service called `mytest` in the status
>> column for all hosts in that particular group
>>
>> I noticed only few hosts got that new service column `mytest' , after
>> a little wait, and most did not create the new column
>> I have a total of 40 hosts in that group
>>
>> I also noticed all of the hosts have the [clientversion] section in
>> the client data showing the `newimage' as the version name.
>> So hobbit server at least instructed the client correctly to pickup
>> the new image and the clients were able to run the clientupdate
>> command.
>>
>> All the clients have the new ext/newscript.sh and the
>> etc/clientversion.cfg file (with content newimage)
>>
>> However, the clients that did not show the new service column is
>> _still_ carrying have the old etc/clientlaunch.cfg file. It does not
>> have an entry of the [newservice] section. So that explains why new
>> service column is not showing in status page for those hosts.
>>
>> A working and non-working clients' hobbitclient.log file has same
>> 'tar: blocksize = 0' . So tar xf probably did not fail.
>> They all are same OS, solaris 8. So something in the non-working hosts
>> preventing it from overwriting the old etc/clientlaunch.cfg file
>>
>> How do I debug this?
>
> I made another update and same issue. Some of the hosts did not get
> the new clientlaunch.cfg file.
> I had to manually go through each of them just to add the snippet
> related to the new extension script.
>
> Would be nice if I could avoid that, afterall `clientupdate' claims to
> do just that

I ran the following on two hosts, one where clientupdate works and one
where it does not.
I did not see it ever touched the clientlaunch.cfg file for either of
them. I am probably
not using the correct switches with truss.

(hobbit):~/client$ rm etc/clientversion.cfg

(hobbit)myhost:~/client$ export HOBBITCLIENTHOME=`pwd`

(hobbit)myhost:~/client$ truss -f ./bin/bbcmd
--env=etc/hobbitclient.cfg ./bin/clientupdate --update=newversion

This really begs a debug switch for clientupdate

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