Please upgrade sfcb to the latest upstream 1.4.6

Bug #1262338 reported by Kent Baxley
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Bug Description

Please update sfcb to the latest stable upstream release, which is 1.4.6:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sblim/index.php?title=Sfcb

Currently we are running a version that is 3 years old, 1.3.8.

Dell pulls this package directly from Ubuntu as a dependency for their OpenManage Server Administrator software.

Customers have complained that the 1.3.8 version has had issues with memory leaks, which have been fixed as of 1.3.9.:

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2013-December/048711.html

I thought it would make sense to go ahead and pull in the latest and greatest for Trusty.

I have built the latest version and currently have is stored here:

https://launchpad.net/~dell-poweredge-team/+archive/poweredge-tools/+packages

It installs cleanly on 14.04 and I so far haven't run into any problems with it. This version also requires a new package dependency from sblim-sfc-common, which I have requested to be packaged here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1262336

A new version of sblim-cmpi-devel is also required as a build-depends, which I've requested here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sblim-cmpi-devel/+bug/1262339

Kent Baxley (kentb)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package sblim-sfcb - 1.4.6-0ubuntu3

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sblim-sfcb (1.4.6-0ubuntu3) trusty; urgency=low

  * Fix one more build dep. LP: #1262338
 -- Kent Baxley <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:40:27 -0600

Changed in sblim-sfcb (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Mike EKlund (meklund-launchpad) wrote :

this is also a problem is precise. Any chance on updates ?

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Kent Baxley (kentb) wrote :

Not for a wholesale update to 1.4.6, no. The best chance would be for the packages at that version to land in the precise-backports repo or a separate ppa with all of the latest and greatest backported to precise.

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Kent Baxley (kentb) wrote :

@Mike Eklund,

Here are some backported packages for precise if you are interested in giving them a try. I just finished building them and they should be available any time now:

https://launchpad.net/~dell-poweredge-team/+archive/sblim-builds/?field.series_filter=precise

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Richard Lloyd (rkl) wrote :

Just a note that I'm seeing an ever-increasing memory leak over time with sfcb 1.3.8 on 12.04 LTS, identical to the problem described at http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2013-December/048709.html

Just upgraded to Dell's OMSA 7.4.0 (we run this mainly for the Auto Recovery function), but it doesn't seem to help.

It's quite disappointing that 14.04 LTS has the fix for this frankly critical memory leak (we've seen 6GB *resident* used by it after a month or so) and yet the 12.04 LTS release has no sign of it. I'm wondering if it's OMSA using sfcb that might be triggering this, which is why it's not easy for Ubuntu devs to see this leak in its rampant glory unless they've got a Dell server and OMSA installed.

The suggest backported packages mentioned by Kent in comment 4 had a problem for me. They've been built without support for the "httpsProcs: 8" line in /etc/sfcb/sfcb.cfg shipped in the package, so won't fire up unless that line is removed.

For the moment, I've gone back to sfcb 1.3.8 and put in a weekly cron job to restart the sfcb service during working hours. A sticking plaster, but until we get an official update for 12.04 LTS, it'll have to do.

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Kent Baxley (kentb) wrote :

@Richard and others,

If you are interested in seeing a potential fix for 12.04, then please get a separate bug report opened up as this one won't get any traction with regard to a fix for the 12.04 release.

I can get 12.04 with OMSA 7.4 installed on a PowerEdge machine to see if we can try and duplicate the problem. Also, if you have any specific items for me to look for while trying to reproduce, etc. it will be appreciated.

I can also try and build a 1.3.9 package for testing to see if it at least stops the memory leaks. That will hopefully help narrow things down a bit as it appears there have been quite a few memory leak issues with this code in recent years.

Thanks for your help.

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