Topic: ezmlm installation failure

[ddougan]

I've just tried to install ezmlm on a 5.6 server (from Gordon Rowell's contrib. on ibiblio.org)  and hit a problem during the post-install phase. One of the events seems to be looping, per this extract from the message log:

Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "4000000040463800142d756c" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 92.
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "s" isn't numeric in sprintf at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 94.
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "@40000000404541ad338ac93c" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 1.
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "@40000000404541ad338ad4f4" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 2.
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "@40000000404541af305373cc" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 3.
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "@40000000404541af3053836c" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 4.
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "@40000000404541af30538754" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 5.
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "@40000000404541af30538b3c" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 6.
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "@40000000404541af3070f67c" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 7.
Mar  3 21:11:43 e-smith e-smith[13667]: Argument "@40000000404541af30710a04" isn't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 8.

I had to kill the parent process to get out of the loop. Can anyone shed any light on what is causing this?

Thanks,

Des

[bushinc]

> I had to kill the parent process

I don't know what caused it, but I received the same error tonight when I ran signal-event post-upgrade on my SME5.6U5 server. No new software was installed.

I had to break out of it after a fair amount of time.

My /var/log/messages are:
Mar 11 21:54:27 myserver e-smith[2693]: Argument "40000000401682c30b89069c" isn'
t numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-l
ogfiles line 92.
Mar 11 21:54:27 myserver e-smith[2693]: Argument "u" isn't numeric in sprintf at
 /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-logfiles line 94.
Mar 11 21:54:27 myserver e-smith[2693]: Argument "@400000004007c6081199c29c" isn
't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-
logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 1.
Mar 11 21:54:27 myserver e-smith[2693]: Argument "@400000004007c6081199da0c" isn
't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-
logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 2.
Mar 11 21:54:27 myserver e-smith[2693]: Argument "@400000004007c6081199e1dc" isn
't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-
logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 3.
Mar 11 21:54:27 myserver e-smith[2693]: Argument "@400000004007c60c088fac5c" isn
't numeric in addition (+) at /etc/e-smith/events/post-upgrade/S05migrate-qmail-
logfiles line 92, <OLDFILE> line 4.