[hobbit] clientupdate and RC and version 4.2?

[David Gore]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:16:20PM +0000, David Gore wrote:
>   
>> Client update still fails to work for us.  What does it do?  It 
>> downloads a clientupdate binary to the ~client/tmp directory.  It can 
>> run manually:
>>
>> clientupdate --update=sunos8v14
>>     
>
> What happens is this:
>
> * hobbitclient.sh runs "clientupdate --update=VERSION --reexec"
>   This copies the clientupdate tool to the
>   client/tmp/.update.HOSTNAME.TIMESTAMP.tmp, makes it executable
>   and launches it with the options "--update=VERSION --remove-self".
>   The reason for this is to avoid unpacking errors if the clientupdate
>   utility is overwritten while running.
>
> * The temporary binary opens a connection to the hobbit server and
>   uses the "download" command to fetch the file "VERSION.tar". This
>   file must exist in the Hobbit servers' ~hobbit/server/download/ directory.
>   The downloaded data is passed to a "tar xf -" command via a pipe.
>   So this downloads and unpacks the new client file in one operation.
>
> * When the unpacking is complete, it exec's the (new)
>   client/bin/clientupdate with the "--suid-setup" option which does
>   nothing unless you've compiled it with a special option.
>
>   
>> So it fails somewhere between getting the clientupdate binary and 
>> running the clientupdate binary.  Is there anything I can try to further 
>> troubleshoot this?
>>
>> Found update in progress or failed update (started 10 minutes ago)
>> 2006-08-03 16:34:49 connect to bbd failed - Connection refused
>> 2006-08-03 16:34:49 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed
>> Cannot fetch new client tarfile
>>     
>
> Hmm - what's your BBDISP and BBDISPLAYS setting ? I've just finished
> troubleshooting another problem with "bb" connecting to the wrong
> servers.
>
>   
BBDISP="0.0.0.0"                # IP address of the Hobbit server
BBDISPLAYS="hobbit1 hobbit2"    # IP of multiple Hobbit servers. BBDISP 
must be "0.0.0.0".

I suppose that makes it sort of interesting, since we are configuring 
the clientupdate on hobbit1 only.  Both hobbits are up and running and 
are up to date in regards to statuses for all the standard and 
customized columns.  Perhaps trying to get the tar file from hobbit2 
where it does not exist causes some grief?

>> Is this going to be fixed for 4.2.
>>     
>
> Yes, we all need this working for 4.2.
>
>
>   
>> There seem to be quite a number of 
>> bugs.  How about a second release candidate?
>>     
>
> I'm considering it, but haven't decided yet whether to do an extra round
> of another RC release. I'll spend some time tomorrow getting an overview
> of what bugs have been fixed during the RC, and then decide after that.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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