Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:07:04 +0200 | From | Markus Trippelsdorf <> | Subject | Re: Strange intermittent EIO error when writing to stdout since v3.8.0 |
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On 2013.06.07 at 11:39 -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: > On 06/06/2013 10:37 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > On 2013.06.06 at 10:18 -0400, Peter Hurley wrote: > >> On 06/06/2013 07:54 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > >>> Since v3.8.0 several people reported intermittent IO errors that happen > >>> during high system load while using "emerge" under Gentoo: > >>> ... > >>> File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/_eventloop/EventLoop.py", line 260, in iteration > >>> if not x.callback(f, event, *x.args): > >>> File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/_async/PipeLogger.py", line 99, in _output_handler > >>> stdout_buf[os.write(stdout_fd, stdout_buf):] > >>> File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 246, in __call__ > >>> rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs) > >>> OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error > > Based on the other reports from Mikael and David, I suspect this problem > may have to do with my commit 699390354da6c258b65bf8fa79cfd5feaede50b6: > > pty: Ignore slave pty close() if never successfully opened > > This commit poisons the pty under certain error conditions that may > occur from parallel open()s (or parallel close() with pending write()). > > It's unclear to me which error condition is triggered and how user-space > got an open file descriptor but that seems the most likely. Is the problem > reproducible enough that a debug patch would likely trigger?
A debug patch would be appreciated. In my case the problem occurs very irregularly; sometimes it happens a few times per day, at other times I don't see the bug for three weeks.
But if Mikael and David could also run their kernels with the debug patch applied, hopefully that's enough to trigger the issue more regularly.
-- Markus
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