[OpenSIPS-Devel] [ opensips-Bugs-3532060 ] opensipsdbctl with dbtext creates bogus data in version file

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Bugs item #3532060, was opened at 2012-06-04 23:18
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Category: None
Group: 1.8.x
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Robert Smith (denodaeus)
Assigned to: Razvan Crainea (razvancrainea)
Summary: opensipsdbctl with dbtext creates bogus data in version file

Initial Comment:
On 1.8.X (not tested with svn trunk, just the latest svn 1.8 branch), if you use the opensipsdbctl tool to generate dbtext table files, the version table file has some bad data in it that causes opensips not to start:

dr_groups:2
id(int,auto) gwlist(string) description(string) <<----
dr_rules:3

It looks like this is some bad leftovers from drouting changes.

More importantly (and might be another bug report, I don't know), this error, when starting opensips, causes it to not log anything (to stderr, to log file, even with running the binary and the extra debug flags on the command line).  This sucks because it took me forever to find out why startup was griping.

After I removed the bogus entry and started, logs were generated through my syslog facility, so i'm pretty sure logging is set up correctly (also this is a migrated 1.7.2 box, and logging was working fine on that).

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Comment By: Razvan Crainea (razvancrainea)
Date: 2012-06-06 01:11

Message:
Hi again!

Although nothing has changed to the logging mechanism, I am not sure why
you are experiencing such problems. I will try to reproduce this on my
system and see what is happening.
Till then I consider this bug closed, thanks for pointing it out.

Regards,
Răzvan

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Comment By: Robert Smith (denodaeus)
Date: 2012-06-05 20:47

Message:
And thanks, indeed updating to trunk removed the dbtext generation problem.

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Comment By: Robert Smith (denodaeus)
Date: 2012-06-05 20:46

Message:
>> Regarding the lack of messages in the syslog, my guess is that OpenSIPS
was
>> not even started because of those errors, and that's why you don't see
the
>> logs at syslog.

While I agree this is the reason, having a bug in a datasource cause the
entire init to tank out and not log *anything* is a categorically bad, bad,
bad idea. I only say this because it's the first time since 1.6 that I've
had an issue with startup not logging that caused me tremendous pain to
track down because I had *nothing* to go on.

With 1.8 i've experienced several issues with startup failure not logging
anything out, has anything around this mechanism changed since this minor
version release?

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Comment By: Razvan Crainea (razvancrainea)
Date: 2012-06-05 01:29

Message:
Hi, Robert!

Yes, this is indeed a bug which was only fixed on the svn trunk. I have
just backported it to 1.8.
Regarding the lack of messages in the syslog, my guess is that OpenSIPS was
not even started because of those errors, and that's why you don't see the
logs at syslog.
Please get the latest svn sources/tarball of 1.8 and try to see if the
problem still appears. 

Regards,
Răzvan

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