Re: Getting FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command

--------"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> wrote--------
Subject: Re: Getting FATAL: terminating connection due to administrator command
Date: 16.09.2010 22:59

>
>Peter Hopfgartner <peter.hopfgartner@r3-gis.com> writes:
>
>> [...]
>> > >http://sourceware.org/systemtap/examples/process/sigmon.stp
>
>> Now we had the error, but systemtap did not report any SIGTERM. Is
>> it possible to have this error without a SIGTERM being involved? As
>> mentioned in a previous mail, I've modified the script to report
>> SIGTERM sent to any process.
>
>There are some other possibilities.  It's possible that the version of
>stap you're using is not expanding signal.send to all possible paths
>of the kernel dispatching signals to your process.
>
>So one might try a few different things:
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
(...)
>
># check for another process sending SIGTERM
>probe syscall.kill {
>   if (sig == 15) {
>        printf("%s[%d] sending %s\n", execname(), pid(), argstr)
>        print_ubacktrace() 
>   }
>}
>

I'm trying this one, currently.

(...)

The sad thing, at the moment, is, that the problem has not been occuring since days, now. I did not change anything in
thesetup of the server, only that the system might be used slightly less, then when it occured, so it is statistically
lesslikely that it occurs.
 

>
>(A more modern system compiler & systemtap would give you much better
>variable-value dumping options.)
>
Is there an easy way to install those on a 5.5 system?
>
>- FChE
>

Regards,
Peter