[CentOS] strange system outage

Thu May 11 18:30:20 UTC 2017
Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 02:40:04PM -0400, Larry Martell wrote:
>>> I have a CentOS 7 system that I run a home grown python daemon on. I
>>> run this same daemon on many other systems without any incident. On
>>> this one system the daemon seems to die or be killed every day around
>>> 3:30am. There is nothing it its log or any system logs that tell me
>>> why it dies. However in /var/log/messages every day I see something
>>> like this:
>>
>> How are you starting this daemon?
>
> I am using code something like this: https://gist.github.com/slor/5946334.
>
>> Can you check the journal?  Perhaps
>> you'll see more useful information than what you see in the syslogs?
>
> Thanks, I will do that.

Thank you for that suggestion. I was able to get someone to run
journalctl and send me the output and it was very interesting.

First, there is logging going on continuously during the time when
logging stops in /var/log/messages.

Second, I see messages like this periodically:

May 10 03:57:46 localhost.localdomain python[40222]: detected
unhandled Python exception in
'/usr/local/motor/motor/core/data/importer.py'
May 10 03:57:46 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[40277]: Only 0MiB is
available on /var/spool/abrt
May 10 03:57:46 localhost.localdomain python[40222]: error sending
data to ABRT daemon:

This happens at various times of the day, and I do not think is
related to the daemon crashing.

But I did see one occurrence of this:

May 09 03:49:35 localhost.localdomain python[14042]: detected
unhandled Python exception in
'/usr/local/motor/motor/core/data/importerd.py'
May 09 03:49:35 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[22714]: Only 0MiB is
available on /var/spool/abrt
May 09 03:49:35 localhost.localdomain python[14042]: error sending
data to ABRT daemon:

And that is the daemon. But I only see that on this one day, and it
crashes every day.

And I see this type of message frequently throughout the day, every day:

May 09 03:40:01 localhost.localdomain CROND[21447]: (motor) CMD
(python /usr/local/motor/motor/scripts/image_mover.py -v1 -d
/usr/local/motor/data > ~/last_image_move_log.txt)
May 09 03:40:01 localhost.localdomain abrt-server[21453]: Only 0MiB is
available on /var/spool/abrt
May 09 03:40:01 localhost.localdomain python[21402]: error sending
data to ABRT daemon:
May 09 03:40:01 localhost.localdomain postfix/postdrop[21456]:
warning: uid=0: No space left on device
May 09 03:40:01 localhost.localdomain postfix/sendmail[21455]: fatal:
root(0): queue file write error
May 09 03:40:01 localhost.localdomain crond[2630]: postdrop: warning:
uid=0: No space left on device
May 09 03:40:01 localhost.localdomain crond[2630]: sendmail: fatal:
root(0): queue file write error
May 09 03:40:01 localhost.localdomain CROND[21443]: (root) MAIL
(mailed 67 bytes of output but got status 0x004b)

So it seems there is a space issue.

And finally, coinciding with the time that the logging resumes in
/var/log/messages I see this every day at that time:

May 10 03:57:57 localhost.localdomain
run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[40293]: finished mlocate
May 10 03:57:57 localhost.localdomain anacron[33406]: Job `cron.daily'
terminated (mailing output)
May 10 03:57:57 localhost.localdomain anacron[33406]: Normal exit (1 job run)

I need to get my remote hands to get me more info.