perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jonathon A Anderson <>]

Ignore that. I forgot I wasn’t logged in as root.

regular_testing restarted this time. I don’t see any indication of any change 
(and, again, I tried rebooting the box before to no avail, which would have 
restarted the service before ;)

~jonathon


[rcops@sn-comp-perf40g
 ~]$ sudo service regular_testing restart
[sudo] password for rcops: 
/etc/init.d/regular_testing stop: perfSONAR Regular Testing stopped
waiting...
/opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/bin/daemon 
--config=/opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/etc/regular_testing.conf 
--pidfile=regular_testing.pid --piddir=/var/run 
--logger=/opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/etc/regular_testing-logger.conf 
--user=perfsonar --group=perfsonar --daemonize
/etc/init.d/regular_testing start: perfSONAR Regular Testing started


> On Jan 15, 2016, at 1:08 PM, Jonathon A Anderson 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Looks like regular_testing (and likely other services?) can’t start because 
> it can’t create a pidfile in /var/run.
> 
> selinux is disabled, permissions look fine (the same as on a working 
> perfsonar box, anyway) and the disk isn’t full.
> 
> Any thoughts on why pidfile write might be failing?
> 
> ~jonathon
> 
> 
> [rcops@sn-comp-perf40g
>  ~]$ tail -n0 -F /var/log/perfsonar/regular_testing.log &
> [1] 24836
> 
> 
> [rcops@sn-comp-perf40g
>  ~]$ service regular_testing restart
> 
> 
> /etc/init.d/regular_testing stop: perfSONAR Regular Testing (pid 12925?) 
> not running
> waiting...
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/bin/daemon 
> --config=/opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/etc/regular_testing.conf 
> --pidfile=regular_testing.pid --piddir=/var/run 
> --logger=/opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/etc/regular_testing-logger.conf 
> --user=perfsonar --group=perfsonar --daemonize
> Can't write pidfile: /var/run/regular_testing.pid
> at /opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/bin/daemon line 220
>       main::lockPIDFile('/var/run', 'regular_testing.pid') called at 
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/bin/daemon line 46
> /etc/init.d/regular_testing start: perfSONAR Regular Testing could not be 
> started
> 
> 
> [rcops@sn-comp-perf40g
>  ~]$ getenforce
> Disabled
> 
> 
> [rcops@sn-comp-perf40g
>  ~]$ stat /var/run
>  File: `/var/run'
>  Size: 4096           Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd00h/64768d  Inode: 1704766     Links: 32
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2016-01-14 20:08:43.121063972 -0700
> Modify: 2016-01-15 03:52:23.869842497 -0700
> Change: 2016-01-15 03:52:23.869842497 -0700
> 
> 
> [rcops@sn-comp-perf40g
>  ~]$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/vg_sncompperf40g-lv_root
>                       50G  3.8G   43G   8% /
> tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda1             477M  161M  291M  36% /boot
> /dev/mapper/vg_sncompperf40g-lv_home
>                      864G   73M  820G   1% /home
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jan 15, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Brian Tierney 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The next thing I'd try is to restart regular testing.
>> 
>> sudo /etc/init.d/regular_testing restart
>> 
>> and look at /var/log/perfsonar/regular_testing.log
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Jonathon A Anderson 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> Absolutely I am clicking “save." In fact, *before* I click “save,” the 
>> change appears to be present in the interface; but when I click “save," it 
>> reverts the view.
>> 
>> on one such host, clicking “save” causes the settings panel to go blank 
>> and never recover without a “refresh.”
>> 
>> ~jonathon
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 15, 2016, at 6:45 AM, Daniel Doyle 
>>> <>
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>> When you make changes, are you sure you are hitting "Save" after clicking 
>>> the "Set" button on edit test parameters?
>>> 
>>> -Dan
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 14, 2016, at 10:37 PM, Jonathon A Anderson 
>>>> <>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I’m trying to change the tests through the perfsonar gui (e.g., change 
>>>> the test description, or add a host) but the changes don’t persist. I’m 
>>>> tailing /var/log/perfsonar/config_daemon.log looking for an error, but 
>>>> there’s no output. Where else should I look?
>>>> 
>>>> ~jonathon
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dan Doyle
>>> GlobalNOC Software Developer
>>> 1-812-856-3892
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Brian Tierney, http://www.es.net/tierney
>> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Berkeley National Lab
>> http://fasterdata.es.net
>> 
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