Help debugging sql problem

Alex Sharaz alex.sharaz at york.ac.uk
Sat Nov 23 12:06:16 CET 2019


thanks Alan 
Rgds
Alex

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> On 22 Nov 2019, at 19:50, Alan Buxey <alan.buxey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> When I've had this its because the detail file was not written to correctly
> when service killed or server shutdown less gracefully than it should have
> been.
> 
> A quick session with vi and the detail.work file will find the culprit
> entry and then all will be well
> 
> alan
> 
>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, 15:57 Alex Sharaz via Freeradius-Users, <
>> freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've just upgraded one of my servers to 3.0.2o and have just noticed the
>> following radius.log messages, although I'm fairly sure it's got nothing to
>> do with the version release.
>> 
>> My FR setup uses buffered-sql to offload sql writes via the details file.
>> 
>> This config works fine on all my other servers ( puppet managed config) but
>> on this one I've noticed
>> 
>> 
>> 1). I see the following messages in the log
>> 
>> Thu Nov 21 15:24:55 2019 : WARNING: (86473) WARNING: Module rlm_sql became
>> unblocked\
>> 
>> 
>> Thu Nov 21 15:25:53 2019 : Error: Unresponsive child for request 87765, in
>> component accounting module sql
>> 
>> 
>> 2). the buffered-sql process copies contents of file  detail  into
>> detail.work leaving the source to capture subsequent packets.oes
>> 
>> 
>> An ls -lt shows
>> 
>> -rw------- 1 freerad freerad  31359093 Nov 21 15:51 detail
>> -rw------- 1 freerad freerad 101566485 Nov 21 15:51 detail-filebeat
>> -rw------- 1 freerad freerad     63282 Nov 21 14:22 detail.work
>> -rw------- 1 freerad freerad 211324742 Nov 21 06:24 detail-filebeat.1
>> 
>> So detail.work hasn't moved since 14:22
>> 
>> I'm guessing there's something in thre detail.work file causing the sql to
>> fail.
>> 
>> 
>> How can I debug the buffered-sql server to check this out without
>> generating 3,000,000 logs for the rest of the server ?
>> 
>> 
>> Rgds
>> 
>> Alex
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