Johannes,

I've been in contact with Thomas about the bug. I've got several aix
machines to test code on so we've been testing the nlist problems on those
machines. I didn't notice any nlist errors on the 32 bit kernels.
Everything appears fine on the 32 bit kernel.

Jayson

>From: Johannes Schmidt-Fischer
>To: Jayson Robinson
>CC: net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: Net-SNMP 5.3.0.1 on aix 5.2 5.3 and possibly 5.1
>Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 12:09:53 +0200
>
>Jayson,
>
>I presume that walking the iptable was not a problem when you built and
>run the net-snmp daemon under 32-bit AIX - at least you didn't mention
>that in your posting. Did you by chance check that there were no nlist
>errors under 32-bit AIX?
>
>Probably you've seen that Thomas Anders who is assigned responsible for
>your bug posting added a followup to your posting (since you posted it
>anonymously you cannot add a followup to it I think but after logging in
>to sourceforge.net you can at least monitor that bug). Thomas asks
>whether you're able and willing to help fixing the net-snmp problems,
>moreover he asked for your name and mail address...
>
>Johannes
>
>Jayson Robinson schrieb:
> > I have since compiled on a 64 bit kernel and run under a 64 bit kernel.
> > We get the same problem with the nlist I/O error. I modified the
> > auto_nlist.c yesterday on that machine to include a definition for aix5
> > so that it would try and use knlist but encountered a different problem
> > for which I posted a bug. I was able to get the snmp daemon to run and
> > respond to requests (and surprisingly enough some of the iftable came
> > back - however when walking the iptable the daemon goes into an endless
> > loop. It's trying to read from a non-existent device and it just
> > continues on forever and ever and takes 100% of the cpu.
> >
> > I did include truss output with the bug as well as all the symptoms.
> > It's bug #1484814
> >
> > Thanks for the information on the previous thread. I'll go take a look
> > at it.
> >
> >
> > Jayson
> >
> >
> >> From: Johannes Schmidt-Fischer
> >> To: Jayson Robinson
> >> CC:
> >>
>net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net,net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> >>
> >> Subject: Re: Net-SNMP 5.3.0.1 on aix 5.2 5.3 and possibly 5.1
> >> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 18:38:32 +0200
> >>
> >> Jayson,
> >>
> >> there has been a discussion about 32-bit and 64-bit kernels about 3
> >> months ago in the net-snmp-coders list (even if it didn't concern AIX
> >> but instead IRIX I think the same problem applies here too). The
> >> thread's topic was "rfc: handle platform specifics at runtime vs.
> >> compile time?".
> >>
> >> You compiled the net-snmp agent at a machine running a 32-bit kernel I
> >> think - at least you tested it there. With 64-bit AIX that apparently
> >> don't work (there is an error message concerning nlist() in the truss
> >> file you posted).
> >>
> >> I cannot say whether the current net-snmp code is AIX 64-bit aware such
> >> that compiling it under a 64-bit kernel will do the trick. In general
> >> all calls to nlist() are to be mapped to an equivalent function
> >> (probably nlist64()) for the 64-bit kernel. Note that the decision what
> >> function will be used for inspecting kernel structures is made during
> >> configure and compilation and not when starting the net-snmp agent.
> >>
> >> Johannes
> >>
> >> Jayson Robinson schrieb:
> >> > All,
> >> >
> >> > Okay our infrastructure has tried running this on a 32 bit aix kernel
> >> > and our package works fine with that. We have not been able to get
> >> > net-snmp 5.3 which is compiled on a 32 bit aix kernel to work on the
> >> aix
> >> > 64 bit kernel.
> >> >
> >> > Jayson
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> From: "Jayson Robinson"
> >> >> To:
> >> >>
> >>
>net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net,net-snmp-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Subject: Net-SNMP 5.3.0.1 on aix 5.2 5.3 and possibly 5.1
> >> >> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 10:24:22 -0400
> >> >>
> >> >> Okay all,
> >> >>
> >> >> Another weird one, perhaps someone has seen this. I have compiled
> >> >> Net-SNMP 5.3.0.1 on aix 5.1/5.2 and 5.3 on our test boxes it works
> >> >> just fine. We have it under srcmaster control and am using the
> >> >> following flags: -f udp:16161. When we take it to our packaging
>teams
> >> >> systems, we're getting nlist errors on at least the aix 5.2 and 5.3
> >> >> boxes. The interesting thing is that if we add the -r flag to the
> >> >> snmpd command line options then everything works fine (except the
> >> >> ifmib) . It's running as root in all cases. I have included both
>the
> >> >> trace and the truss output for you to take a look at.
> >> >>
> >> >> The command line options to configure:
> >> >> ./configure --with-mib-modules="host disman/event-mib smux
> >> >> ucd-snmp/diskio" --prefix="/opt/net-snmp"
> >> >> --with-persistent-directory="/var/net-snmp"
> >> >> --with-default-snmp-version="2"
> >> >> --with-logfile="/var/net-snmp/snmpd.log"
>--with-openssl=/usr/local
> >> >> --disable-shared
> >> >>
> >> >> Please let me know if anyone has seen this.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >> Jayson
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> >> >> << snmp_trace.out.txt >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> << truss_net-snmp52.out.txt >>
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