abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' occurred on a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 host
Issue
There are two closely related symptoms to this problem.
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After installing the
rhn-virtualization-hostandrhn-virtualization-commonrpms on a RHEL6 host that is part of a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 cluster, the host system may start to consume an excessive amount of memory, repetitively reporting the following to/var/log/messages;............... Sep 17 13:54:01 RHV-AES-114 abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' Sep 17 13:56:02 RHV-AES-114 abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' Sep 17 13:58:02 RHV-AES-114 abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' Sep 17 14:00:01 RHV-AES-114 abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' Sep 17 14:02:02 RHV-AES-114 abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' Sep 17 14:04:02 RHV-AES-114 abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' Sep 17 14:06:02 RHV-AES-114 abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' Sep 17 14:08:02 RHV-AES-114 abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' ...............There will be several pairs of
CRONDand/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.pyprocesses running;F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND ............. 5 0 32631 3891 20 0 140088 1020 pipe_w S ? 0:00 CROND 4 0 32633 32631 20 0 271892 6720 unix_w Ss ? 0:00 python /usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py 5 0 32647 3891 20 0 140088 1276 pipe_w S ? 0:00 CROND 4 0 32649 32647 20 0 271892 20060 unix_w Ss ? 0:00 python /usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py 5 0 32693 3891 20 0 140088 1300 pipe_w S ? 0:00 CROND 4 0 32695 32693 20 0 271888 20104 unix_w Ss ? 0:00 python /usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py .............The following mail will be sent to the
rootuser every time that/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.pyruns;Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py", line 290, in <module> domain_list = poll_through_vdsm() File "/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py", line 140, in poll_through_vdsm import localvdsm File "/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/localvdsm.py", line 35, in <module> raise ImportError('local vdsm not found') ImportError: local vdsm not found -
After installing the
rhn-virtualization-hostandrhn-virtualization-commonrpms on a RHEL6 host that is part of a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 cluster, the host system may start to repetitively report the following message sequence to/var/log/messages;Sep 17 16:22:10 dhcp-190-228 abrtd: Sending an email... Sep 17 16:22:10 dhcp-190-228 abrtd: Email was sent to: root@localhost Sep 17 16:22:10 dhcp-190-228 abrtd: New problem directory /var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2012-09-17-16:22:01-53703, processing Sep 17 16:24:02 dhcp-190-228 abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in '/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py' Sep 17 16:24:02 dhcp-190-228 abrtd: New client connected Sep 17 16:24:02 dhcp-190-228 abrtd: Directory 'pyhook-2012-09-17-16:24:02-55753' creation detected Sep 17 16:24:02 dhcp-190-228 abrt-server[55761]: Saved Python crash dump of pid 55753 to /var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2012-09-17-16:24:02-55753The
/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.pyand associatedcronprocesses terminate as expected. No excessive memory usage should be observed.Again, the following mail will be sent to the
rootuser every time that/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.pyruns;Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py", line 290, in <module> domain_list = poll_through_vdsm() File "/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/poller.py", line 140, in poll_through_vdsm import localvdsm File "/usr/share/rhn/virtualization/localvdsm.py", line 35, in <module> raise ImportError('local vdsm not found') ImportError: local vdsm not found
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3
- vdsm-4.9-113.3
- rhn-virtualization-host-5.4.14-9
- rhn-virtualization-common-5.4.14-9
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