Re: [pcp] pminfo -t aborts pmcd (#30)

[Ken McDonell <notifications@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Some of the code is not 20 years old ... but you're right, this should not happen, even for PCP 3.8.12 which is 22 releases in the past and was released 18 months ago. It is certainly not reproducible on my local Ubuntu system with the latest PCP version.

There is already a test in the QA suite for 'pminfo -t' followed by 'pminfo -T' and I cannot recall this test ever failing in the way you describe (and it is run many times on dozens of machines, including Ubuntu, during any release cycle ... and would have been run prior to the 3.8.12 PCP release). So this is probably not a generic issue, but something specific to your setup.

Are you able to upgrade to a newer version from the PCP project web site or bintray.com?

If not, or if the problem persists, the following additional information would help us diagnose the root cause:

1. contents of /var/log/pcp/pmcd/pmcd.log when pmcd is first observed to be not working
2. output from pcp(1) command when pmcd is working
3. an indication if pminfo with other command line options ... try none or -d or -v ... produce the same failure scenario.

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