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[solved] Conflict with .LOCK file

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Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Operating System: Windows XP SP3
Version of smsd: 3.1.14
Smsd installed from: sources
Name and model of a modem / phone: Siemens MC 35
Interface: serial

I have upgraded recently to v.3.1.14 from 3.0.10.
Whole system works perfectly, but I noticed one trouble.
Several times per day I see the following error in smsd.log :



I am unable to understand why "Conflict with .LOCK file in the spooler" occured.
/var/spool/sms/aus/ is one of my queue folders.
None of my scripts writes something into that folder except smsd itself.
I have configured smsd with keep_filename = no.

Please help.

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
Why the isssue is important:

As can be seen from the log, conflict is not fatal. smsd continues to work. And one second later it moves the file (2994468.txt) from outgoing folder to queue.
But this file is not processed by any modem anymore. And the file does not exist in queue folder.

As a result, this message is not sent and no feedback from any modem about failure ( eventhandler ).

Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
I was able to reproduce this issue on Windows/Cygwin, with 10 simulated modems and couple of hundred messages. Because of slow filesystem, some new files in the queue directory were handled by the modem process, before mainprocess completed the spooling. This was also tested on GNU/Linux, with 10 modems and 10000 messages. With GNU/Linux there was no any conflicts, and no any delays. Before the latest change was released, it was tested with 64 modems and 15000 files, successfully. But not under Windows/Cygwin...

However, spooling can be enhanced, and there is also a bug when moving of file fails. This caused that the original file was deleted in the case of conflict

Here is the patch which will fix your current problem:

diff -Naur 3.1.14/src/extras.c smstools3/src/extras.c
--- 3.1.14/src/extras.c 2010-09-21 12:15:45.000000000 +0300
+++ smstools3/src/extras.c      2011-02-17 11:39:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -314,7 +314,9 @@
     }
     else
     {
-      unlink(filename);
+      if (!result) // 3.1.15: do not delete in case of errors
+        unlink(filename);
+
       if (newfilename)
         strcpy(newfilename, newname);
     }
@@ -585,6 +587,10 @@
         continue;
       }

+      // 3.1.15: Skip empty files:
+      if (!statbuf.st_size)
+        continue;
+
       files_count++;

       // 3.1.12:
 
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Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
Thank you very much Keke for your kindly support !

Please excuse me , I have no expirience how to apply such patches.
Where I can find information about that ?

Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Save it as /tmp/patch, then:

cd smstools3/src
patch < /tmp/patch


Then recompile and replace the /usr/local/bin/smsd.exe.

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
I have received the following output from patch command :


Is it OK?

Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Not ok. 587 is where the second change should start. Probably your /tmp/patch was stored incorrectly.

Edit the file extras.c. Locate those two places, and check if the patch is correct (highlighted). If it's not, just change it by hand.

    if (!unlockfile(newname))
    {
      unlink(newname);
      if (!result)
        result = 3;
    }
    else
    {
      if (!result) // 3.1.15: do not delete in case of errors
        unlink(filename);

      if (newfilename)
        strcpy(newfilename, newname);
    }

    return result;
  }
}

char *cutspaces(char *text)
{
 
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      if (!i)
      {
        locked_count++;
        continue;
      }

      // 3.1.15: Skip empty files:
      if (!statbuf.st_size)
        continue;

      files_count++;

      // 3.1.12:
      //if (trust_directory || !islocked(tmpname)) {...
      if (islocked(tmpname))
        continue;

      sprintf(storage_key, "*%s*\n", tmpname);
 
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Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
Thank you !

the problem resolved!

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
Hi Keke,

I still have some issues with new version even after above patch.

Issue 1)
Happens very rare. Once per few days. Fatal error of smsd.
The log is:



Question #1
-----------
What is strange for me : I use option "keep_filename = no" and usually system changes filename during such moving:
2011-02-19 15:02:11,5, smsd: Moved file /var/spool/sms/outgoing/3016811.txt to /var/spool/sms/aus/DfoTRR
But in case of fatal error I don't see changed name in the log:
2011-02-21 07:42:14,2, smsd: Fatal error: Cannot move /var/spool/sms/outgoing/3017015.txt to /var/spool/sms/aus. Check file and dir permissions.

Is it a bug or feature?

Question #2
-----------
I have some idea why fatal error happens. Please review my considerations.
I have external script writing new messages into outgoing folder from MysQL. This script is scheduled to run every minute.
Sometimes ( very rare ) smsd starts to move files from outgoing folder before above mentioned script to write all files.
In case of fatal error the file is "locked" by my script for writing and smsd has trouble with moving.
Are my considerations correct?
If yes, I ask you please to help me with implementing the following solution.
In scuh case to modify smsd code to not generate "Fatal error", because error is temporary and should not occur few seconds later. Is it possible? What piece of smsd code should be modified for that?


Issue 2)
Conflict with .LOCK file is now NOT occured after your patch. But now few times per day I see the following issue.
Please see log file:

// smsd.log



// trouble log



Questions:
----------
Smsd reports that it moved file succesfully but modem process is unable to read it. I don't understand why.
Also it is unclear for me why in this case eventhandler is fired for SENT event?

Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
VVV wrote
Question #1
-----------
What is strange for me : I use option "keep_filename = no" and usually system changes filename during such moving:
2011-02-19 15:02:11,5, smsd: Moved file /var/spool/sms/outgoing/3016811.txt to /var/spool/sms/aus/DfoTRR
But in case of fatal error I don't see changed name in the log:
2011-02-21 07:42:14,2, smsd: Fatal error: Cannot move /var/spool/sms/outgoing/3017015.txt to /var/spool/sms/aus. Check file and dir permissions.

Is it a bug or feature?

It's a feature, but probably I change it in the next version. This error has been very unusual, and that information was never needed.

VVV wrote
Question #2
-----------
I have some idea why fatal error happens. Please review my considerations.
I have external script writing new messages into outgoing folder from MysQL. This script is scheduled to run every minute.
Sometimes ( very rare ) smsd starts to move files from outgoing folder before above mentioned script to write all files.
In case of fatal error the file is "locked" by my script for writing and smsd has trouble with moving.
Are my considerations correct?
If yes, I ask you please to help me with implementing the following solution.
In scuh case to modify smsd code to not generate "Fatal error", because error is temporary and should not occur few seconds later. Is it possible? What piece of smsd code should be modified for that?

Can you show the code which generates outgoing files? If you can show it as it is, I can check and test it on my environment.

VVV wrote
Questions:
----------
Smsd reports that it moved file succesfully but modem process is unable to read it. I don't understand why.
Also it is unclear for me why in this case eventhandler is fired for SENT event?

I have to check this more deeply later. SMS was sent successfully, because of this the file was handled as SENT, but it seems that smsd was not able to write to the file.

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
the script for my Question #2 is simply Windows bat file called MySQL stored procedure:


This bat file is scheduled by windows task scheduler to run every minute. Stored procedure inside MySQL walks through message table and writes each new message to a file. Below are MySQL procedures.


Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Your consideration in case of fatal error was correct.

The procedure sp_sendsms_message creates a file without a lock file. Because of this, smsd starts handling as soon as the file was seen.

There are some possibilities to fix this. The procedure could create a file with extension '.LOCK' instead of '.txt'. After the file is complete, it could be renamed from xxx.LOCK to xxx.txt. This ensures that smsd will not try to handle incomplete files. Hopefully this can be done, but if not, I'll try to explain another solution.

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
Is it a feature of smsd to skip files with .LOCK extension?
If yes , I will modify my code the way you proposed.

Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
VVV wrote
Is it a feature of smsd to skip files with .LOCK extension?
If yes , I will modify my code the way you proposed.

Yes it is.

Files can also be created to the temporary directory (in the same partition), and after the file is complete, it can be moved to the outgoing directory. With this method .LOCK files or renaming is not required.

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
Ok, thanks a lot

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
Unfortunately change of file processing doesn't help with this issue.
I have reconfigured system yesterday to place sms files in different folder, and next move them in outgoing folder. My new bat file looks :


Even with such processing smsd has encountered fatal error today:


After that , system has been manually started again and it works fine :


You can see that suspicious file has been moved successfully after restart.

I ask you please consider my initial proposal : to change smsd code and not generate fatal error in above case. simply skip file temporarily.

Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
VVV wrote
I ask you please consider my initial proposal : to change smsd code and not generate fatal error in above case. simply skip file temporarily.

It's not that simple. Fatal error is the consequence rather than the cause for the problem. I would like to see what actually and exactly is causing the problem, and then fix what can be fixed.

I have made a special version of smsd for you. Please download, compile and run it, until the fatal error happens next time. Right after smsd has stopped, in the trouble log there should be explained what has happened. I'll wait to see it.

The link for the package is in the private block:
Hidden private text.



Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
Ok I will do.
Whether preivious patch is also in the package?

Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
VVV wrote
Whether preivious patch is also in the package?

Yes, of course.

Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
As soon as you have any results with the special version of smsd, please let me know and see the log. And at this stage, please do not make any other changes to the system.

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
I have installed new version yestrday and have now the following results.
Near mid of day PC has hunged up and didn't respond to any commands.

we noticed we could no longer connect to the SMS database from
our workstations. I couldn't even ping the SMS server. I put a monitor
on the server and it was frozen at the desktop. I couldn't get it back
to life so I had to reboot the server.

After reboot everything worked as normal. No messages in the windows event
viewer as to why it crashed.

below is a smsd log :


and trouble log



Hidden private text.



the same picture is for our scheduled task running every minute. last succesfull execution at 15:20 and silence after that.

Very strange... :(


« Last edit by keke on Thu Mar 03, 2011 16:23, 159 months ago. »
Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
Bad to say what caused that freezing. It can be anything, starting from hardware failure, etc...

Latest messages 3052944.txt, 3052945.txt and 3052946.txt likely were sent successfully, and there probably was no ...47.txt existing when the freezing happened. Can only look forward if the problem occurs again, or something else happens (fatal error by smsd).

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
Since installation of special smsd version, we had no smsd stop events so far.
However from time to time we had unexpected PC restart events.
Not sure whether they are relate to new version or not.
I will inform you once stop event will be captured.

Administrator
Registered:
May 2009
Location: Jyväskylä, Finland
When the PC restarts, what is in the logs at that time? As you have had several restarts, it could be good to see the logs from all restarts, if possible.

Another point: between restarts of PC, how much messages were spooled by smsd? Actual number is not important, but magnitude, is it just couple, about hundred, some hundreds, or even thousands, or more.

Member
Registered:
Jun 2009
Location: Russian Federation
Topic owner
We got it! today smsd has stopped with file conflict error.
Please see below logs

smsd.log :


trouble.log


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