[Chilli] net.c: 749: 9 (Bad file descriptor)

[David Bird]

Are those errors alone, or associated with other errors in log? Upgrading is advised. Also wondering if the state of the dhcpif ever changes (upped or downed, etc). 

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On Feb 27, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Iacopo Spalletti <serverinfo at iast.it> wrote:

> Alle 16:45 di Sunday 27 February 2011, Liran Tal ha scritto:
>> If you're mentioning bad file descriptors, possibly the OS simply ran out
>> of those
>> so it's unable to allocate anymore and hence the error message.
>> 
>> My suggestion would be to first check the status of that when this issue
>> occurs.
>> If that is the case it's easy enough to just set the value to a higher
>> limit.
>> 
> I'll check next time it will happen, but ulimit -n is quite high (32K)
> 
> Raising loggin a also see a flood (3~4 / sec ) of another kind of error:
> net.c: 114: 13 (Permission denied) ioctl(SIOCSIFFLAGS) failed
> this error happens also on  other boxes, though at a lower rate
> 
> I'll try with 1.2.6
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Liran Tal.
>> 
>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Iacopo Spalletti <serverinfo at iast.it>wrote:
>>> We have a bunch of boxes running coova: on one of them recently coova
>>> started
>>> dropping connections with errors:
>>> coova-chilli[30592]: net.c: 749: 9 (Bad file descriptor)
>>> net_write_eth(fd=-1,
>>> len=54) failed
>>> Stopping and restarting coova temporarely fixes the problem; this happens
>>> roughly every 12~36 hours.
>>> All the boxes runs on the same OS (Debian Squeeze) and hardware and has
>>> the same version of coova (1.2.5); the only difference is the affected
>>> coova has a
>>> high-speed connection (100Mibt) on the WAN side, but the traffic is quite
>>> low
>>> (rarely over 6Mbit) and I cannot find any correlation between bandwith
>>> usage
>>> and the problem.
>>> Any advice if it is a software problem or hardware-related?
>>> 
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>>> Iacopo Spalletti
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