[Mageia-sysadm] Puppet lockup, potential solution

[Remy CLOUARD]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:59:37PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After trying the hardcore approach ( debugging, etc ), I decided to do a
> more complete search on the web, and found that :
> http://www.mail-archive.com/puppet-users@googlegroups.com/msg09156.html
> 
> Basically, that's exactly the problem we see, and I have been able to
> reproduce on alamut, using the openssl speed trick.
> 
> According to 
> https://launchpad.net/debian/squeeze/+source/ruby1.8/+changelog
> the bug is fixed in 1.8.7.299 
> 
> Problem, we run : 
> [root at alamut ~]# rpm -q ruby
> ruby-1.8.7.p249-4.1mdv2010.2
> 
> So we have a few choice :
> - backport the patch
> ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580464 ) 
> 
> - backport the whole ruby package
> 
> - wait until we upgrade servers ( and kill all puppet process once per
> day )
> 
> Any opinions ?
> -- 
> Michael Scherer
> 
I’d say we backport the whole ruby package, since it will both fix
security issues (the reason for p334 is just that) and bugfixes.

I can do it if you agree on this.

Regards,
-- 
Rémy CLOUARD
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