Hi Folks -
I had an odd effect today and I'm wondering if other people might have seen something similar in the past. One of our Linux servers (which has been running happily for a week) has an update process running which every five minutes checks to see if there is new data on the disk and if so, updates itself from it.
Today, I noticed that it stopped updating itself and investigating showed that it hit repeatedly an "InvalidDirectoryError" when trying to update itself. Trying to understand what was going on I went into the system life via VNC and stepped through the update method and suddenly it started working again! No more InvalidDirectoryErrors, updating went fine.
I'm at a complete loss as what might have caused this error. Unfortunately (since I was doing it on the life system) I couldn't investigate the error condition closer but there is a possibility that directory service had been used from different threads. Anyone having any ideas? (the only thing I am certain is that attaching VNC was *not* what it made it working again - I saw the error while I was in there with VNC and it became working again after I stepped through the method).
Any help is greatly appreciated. So are similar experiences and workarounds for the issue. The server itself is running Fedora Core 4.
Cheers, - Andreas