Activity log for bug #1429427

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2015-03-07 17:16:03 sgofferj bug added bug
2015-03-07 17:16:21 sgofferj affects tftp-hpa (Ubuntu) cron (Ubuntu)
2015-06-08 09:21:21 Launchpad Janitor cron (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2015-06-08 09:22:49 G.J. bug added subscriber G.J.
2015-06-09 08:52:31 G.J. affects cron (Ubuntu) rsyslog (Ubuntu)
2015-09-24 07:20:47 Frank Agerholm bug added subscriber Frank Agerholm
2016-02-26 12:44:38 Ingo Dyck bug added subscriber Ingo Dyck
2017-05-27 12:57:45 Dominique Poulain bug added subscriber Dominique Poulain
2017-07-17 08:51:20 Seyeong Kim nominated for series Ubuntu Trusty
2017-07-17 09:29:50 Seyeong Kim description On my main server I see unexplainable time jumps backwards in the syslog. Those jumps affect CRON. Example: Feb 10 06:48:01 nostromo CRON[20351]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:49:01 nostromo CRON[20364]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20386]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/status-nostromo.sh >/dev/null 2>&1) Feb 7 05:40:01 nostromo CRON[20389]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20390]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20391]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkip.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) For debugging I did the following: Start xclock and watch xclock and tail -f /var/log/syslog in parallel. When CRON logged a wrong time, xclock did NOT show any time jump but seemed to freeze for a fraction of a second. Open a screen and start a script that will once per second read the time (in unix seconds) and compare the read time with the time read a second ago. If the current time was smaller, the script would send an email with a process list from before and after the jump. The script also never detected any time jump. In summary, my current impression is that there might be a bug in CRON because no other programm seems to be able to see the "wrong" time. The server in question is syslog server for 4 servers and 3 network devices. The time jumps exclusively show in syslog entries from the local CRON instance. Not in any remote syslog entry and not in any other local syslog entry, e.g. from DHCPD, bind, tftpd, etc. etc. Also, after a reboot, things work ok for several days upto about 2 or 3 weeks. Then the "time jumps" start to occur with increasing frequency. I don't use user crontabs but maintain all jobs in /etc/crontab. I have number of jobs which are triggered every minute and another number of jobs which are triggered every 5 minutes (maybe some CRON internal counter overflow problem?). Hardware: Asus P9D-V Intel Xeon E3-1240L V3 16GB ECC RAM 128GB SSD System 3x3TB ZFS RaidZ2 storage 1x3TB Misc. data CMOS battery already changed and board inspected. nostromo:~ # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release: 14.04 nostromo:~ # apt-cache policy cron cron: Installed: 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status [Impact] on Trusty logging to syslog via cron causes timestamp abnormals after several hours. [Test Case] 1. run below first, while true ; do logger "hello syslog" ; sleep 1; done 2. register below script to crontab for i in {1..100} ; do logger "hello syslog via cron" ; sleep 1; done 3. monitor syslog with below script tail -f -n 100 /var/log/syslog You can see weird timestamp in several hours. [Regression Potential] it's ratelimiting turn off code, could be issue with being off rate-limit [Other Info] commit From 7a2e2473476d2b10a775affd9ac6c62b81c450e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomas Heinrich <theinric@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:47:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] bugfix: plug a memleak in imuxsock The hash table for the system socket was allocated twice. The other one being in activateListeners(). This commit practically reverts: 34a77cde2423303da72ab773128a2ddcf41 The issue seems to be that the hash table is not initialized (to NULL) rather then not being allocated. ##################################################################### ## old description On my main server I see unexplainable time jumps backwards in the syslog. Those jumps affect CRON. Example: Feb 10 06:48:01 nostromo CRON[20351]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:49:01 nostromo CRON[20364]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20386]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/status-nostromo.sh >/dev/null 2>&1) Feb 7 05:40:01 nostromo CRON[20389]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20390]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20391]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkip.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) For debugging I did the following: Start xclock and watch xclock and tail -f /var/log/syslog in parallel. When CRON logged a wrong time, xclock did NOT show any time jump but seemed to freeze for a fraction of a second. Open a screen and start a script that will once per second read the time (in unix seconds) and compare the read time with the time read a second ago. If the current time was smaller, the script would send an email with a process list from before and after the jump. The script also never detected any time jump. In summary, my current impression is that there might be a bug in CRON because no other programm seems to be able to see the "wrong" time. The server in question is syslog server for 4 servers and 3 network devices. The time jumps exclusively show in syslog entries from the local CRON instance. Not in any remote syslog entry and not in any other local syslog entry, e.g. from DHCPD, bind, tftpd, etc. etc. Also, after a reboot, things work ok for several days upto about 2 or 3 weeks. Then the "time jumps" start to occur with increasing frequency. I don't use user crontabs but maintain all jobs in /etc/crontab. I have number of jobs which are triggered every minute and another number of jobs which are triggered every 5 minutes (maybe some CRON internal counter overflow problem?). Hardware: Asus P9D-V Intel Xeon E3-1240L V3 16GB ECC RAM 128GB SSD System 3x3TB ZFS RaidZ2 storage 1x3TB Misc. data CMOS battery already changed and board inspected. nostromo:~ # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release: 14.04 nostromo:~ # apt-cache policy cron cron:   Installed: 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2   Candidate: 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2   Version table:  *** 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 0         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2017-07-17 09:44:05 Seyeong Kim attachment added lp1429427_trusty.debdiff https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/1429427/+attachment/4916080/+files/lp1429427_trusty.debdiff
2017-07-17 09:44:22 Seyeong Kim bug added subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors Team
2017-07-17 09:44:33 Seyeong Kim bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2017-07-17 09:45:05 Seyeong Kim description [Impact] on Trusty logging to syslog via cron causes timestamp abnormals after several hours. [Test Case] 1. run below first, while true ; do logger "hello syslog" ; sleep 1; done 2. register below script to crontab for i in {1..100} ; do logger "hello syslog via cron" ; sleep 1; done 3. monitor syslog with below script tail -f -n 100 /var/log/syslog You can see weird timestamp in several hours. [Regression Potential] it's ratelimiting turn off code, could be issue with being off rate-limit [Other Info] commit From 7a2e2473476d2b10a775affd9ac6c62b81c450e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomas Heinrich <theinric@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:47:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] bugfix: plug a memleak in imuxsock The hash table for the system socket was allocated twice. The other one being in activateListeners(). This commit practically reverts: 34a77cde2423303da72ab773128a2ddcf41 The issue seems to be that the hash table is not initialized (to NULL) rather then not being allocated. ##################################################################### ## old description On my main server I see unexplainable time jumps backwards in the syslog. Those jumps affect CRON. Example: Feb 10 06:48:01 nostromo CRON[20351]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:49:01 nostromo CRON[20364]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20386]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/status-nostromo.sh >/dev/null 2>&1) Feb 7 05:40:01 nostromo CRON[20389]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20390]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20391]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkip.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) For debugging I did the following: Start xclock and watch xclock and tail -f /var/log/syslog in parallel. When CRON logged a wrong time, xclock did NOT show any time jump but seemed to freeze for a fraction of a second. Open a screen and start a script that will once per second read the time (in unix seconds) and compare the read time with the time read a second ago. If the current time was smaller, the script would send an email with a process list from before and after the jump. The script also never detected any time jump. In summary, my current impression is that there might be a bug in CRON because no other programm seems to be able to see the "wrong" time. The server in question is syslog server for 4 servers and 3 network devices. The time jumps exclusively show in syslog entries from the local CRON instance. Not in any remote syslog entry and not in any other local syslog entry, e.g. from DHCPD, bind, tftpd, etc. etc. Also, after a reboot, things work ok for several days upto about 2 or 3 weeks. Then the "time jumps" start to occur with increasing frequency. I don't use user crontabs but maintain all jobs in /etc/crontab. I have number of jobs which are triggered every minute and another number of jobs which are triggered every 5 minutes (maybe some CRON internal counter overflow problem?). Hardware: Asus P9D-V Intel Xeon E3-1240L V3 16GB ECC RAM 128GB SSD System 3x3TB ZFS RaidZ2 storage 1x3TB Misc. data CMOS battery already changed and board inspected. nostromo:~ # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release: 14.04 nostromo:~ # apt-cache policy cron cron:   Installed: 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2   Candidate: 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2   Version table:  *** 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 0         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status [Impact] on Trusty logging to syslog via cron causes timestamp abnormals after several hours. [Test Case] 1. run below first, while true ; do logger "hello syslog" ; sleep 1; done 2. register below script to crontab for i in {1..100} ; do logger "hello syslog via cron" ; sleep 1; done 3. monitor syslog with below script tail -f -n 100 /var/log/syslog You can see weird timestamp in several hours. [Regression Potential] it's ratelimiting turn off code, could be issue with being off rate-limit [Other Info] below commit fixes this issue in my test From 7a2e2473476d2b10a775affd9ac6c62b81c450e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomas Heinrich <theinric@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:47:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] bugfix: plug a memleak in imuxsock The hash table for the system socket was allocated twice. The other one being in activateListeners(). This commit practically reverts: 34a77cde2423303da72ab773128a2ddcf41 The issue seems to be that the hash table is not initialized (to NULL) rather then not being allocated. ##################################################################### ## old description On my main server I see unexplainable time jumps backwards in the syslog. Those jumps affect CRON. Example: Feb 10 06:48:01 nostromo CRON[20351]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:49:01 nostromo CRON[20364]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20386]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/status-nostromo.sh >/dev/null 2>&1) Feb 7 05:40:01 nostromo CRON[20389]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20390]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkinternet.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) Feb 10 06:50:01 nostromo CRON[20391]: (root) CMD ( /storage/exec/checkip.sh 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null) For debugging I did the following: Start xclock and watch xclock and tail -f /var/log/syslog in parallel. When CRON logged a wrong time, xclock did NOT show any time jump but seemed to freeze for a fraction of a second. Open a screen and start a script that will once per second read the time (in unix seconds) and compare the read time with the time read a second ago. If the current time was smaller, the script would send an email with a process list from before and after the jump. The script also never detected any time jump. In summary, my current impression is that there might be a bug in CRON because no other programm seems to be able to see the "wrong" time. The server in question is syslog server for 4 servers and 3 network devices. The time jumps exclusively show in syslog entries from the local CRON instance. Not in any remote syslog entry and not in any other local syslog entry, e.g. from DHCPD, bind, tftpd, etc. etc. Also, after a reboot, things work ok for several days upto about 2 or 3 weeks. Then the "time jumps" start to occur with increasing frequency. I don't use user crontabs but maintain all jobs in /etc/crontab. I have number of jobs which are triggered every minute and another number of jobs which are triggered every 5 minutes (maybe some CRON internal counter overflow problem?). Hardware: Asus P9D-V Intel Xeon E3-1240L V3 16GB ECC RAM 128GB SSD System 3x3TB ZFS RaidZ2 storage 1x3TB Misc. data CMOS battery already changed and board inspected. nostromo:~ # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS Release: 14.04 nostromo:~ # apt-cache policy cron cron:   Installed: 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2   Candidate: 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2   Version table:  *** 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 0         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2017-07-17 09:47:14 Seyeong Kim rsyslog (Ubuntu): status Confirmed Fix Released
2017-07-17 09:48:54 Seyeong Kim tags sts
2017-07-17 13:56:57 Eric Desrochers bug task added rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty)
2017-07-17 13:57:09 Eric Desrochers rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty): assignee Seyeong Kim (xtrusia)
2017-07-17 13:57:12 Eric Desrochers rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty): importance Undecided Medium
2017-07-17 13:57:27 Eric Desrochers tags sts sts sts-sru-needed
2017-07-17 16:29:44 Eric Desrochers bug added subscriber Eric Desrochers
2017-07-18 10:30:44 Seyeong Kim attachment added lp1429427_trusty2.debdiff https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rsyslog/+bug/1429427/+attachment/4916721/+files/lp1429427_trusty2.debdiff
2017-07-18 13:18:41 Eric Desrochers rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty): status New In Progress
2017-07-18 13:18:51 Eric Desrochers bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2017-07-19 15:47:26 Robie Basak rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty): status In Progress Fix Committed
2017-07-19 15:47:30 Robie Basak tags sts sts-sru-needed sts sts-sru-needed verification-needed verification-needed-trusty
2017-07-19 15:47:59 Robie Basak removed subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors Team
2017-07-20 01:21:52 Seyeong Kim tags sts sts-sru-needed verification-needed verification-needed-trusty sts sts-sru-needed verification-done-trusty verification-needed
2017-07-27 14:17:45 Łukasz Zemczak removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2017-07-27 14:27:46 Launchpad Janitor rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty): status Fix Committed Fix Released