lsof 4.81 issue

[Court Campbell]

Thanks SEP, but I have already done that. I have also talked with Vic Abell and he is pointing towards HP implementation of PSTAT as the issue.

[Dennis Handly]

I get the same stacktrace on IPF but I don't get any hangs with: lsof +aL1 /var

It doesn't seem like pstat_getsocket should be waiting for PIPE.

>HP support has been useless.

In what way? Have you given them a small test case that calls pstat_getsocket and hangs?

Do you know which socket it is hanging on?

Try finding which PID has the socket? Loop through all of the PIDs with "lsof +aL1 /var -p PID1":
for P in $(UNIX95=EXTENDED_PS ps -e -opid=); do
lsof -p $P +aL1 /var
done

[Court Campbell]

> In what way?

Every time I call support I get dumped to a call center in India or Costa Rica. Then I have to ask to be sent to tier 2 support. Then the guys at that level aren't software engineers. Basically, I am not able to talk to the correct people.

[Court Campbell]

It hangs when it hit the pid for /etc/vx/bin/vxconfigbackupd

[Court Campbell]

Oops, wrong pid. It's actually:

/opt/java1.5/jre/bin/PA_RISC2.0/java -DXPPA=1 -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -cp classes/xpdevicemap.jar:classes/bccaservice.j

Looks like the xp performance advisor agent.

[Court Campbell]

I stopped the process and now lsof is working fine. I wonder who I need to contact at HP to get them to look at this.

[erics_1]

Court,

Ask that your case be sent to the backline languages group. Chances are you're being dumped into backline sys admin.

Hope you get somewhere with it.

Regards,
Eric

[Court Campbell]

Dennis. I need you to reply. You deserve a bunny for this.

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>I am not able to talk to the correct people.

I would have thought HP-UX support would be better than this.

>Oops, wrong pid. It's actually:

I probably should have had this in the loop:
UNIX95=EXTENDED_PS ps -x -p $P -opid= -oargs=

>need you to reply. You deserve a bunny for this.

Here you go.

>erics: Ask that your case be sent to the backline languages group.

This has nothing to do with languages, this is more kernel or libc. When they ask me, I would just have to them to move it along. :-)

[Dennis Handly]

>Looks like the xp performance advisor agent.

Now that you know the application, it should be a simple matter to write a program to look through the files and show pstat_getsocket hangs. ;-)