[gluster-packaging] [Gluster-Maintainers] Release 5.4: Earlier than Mar-10th

Nithya Balachandran nbalacha at redhat.com
Mon Feb 25 16:00:18 UTC 2019


On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 21:12, Shyam Ranganathan <srangana at redhat.com> wrote:

> Time to reset and understand where we are at here. The dates are
> slipping, but the tracker is still having the following blockers.
>
> We need to either understand when these would be fixed, and take a call
> on creating 5.4 with known issues not addressed in the blocker, or wait
> for the fixes. Responses to the bugs and updates to bugzilla would help
> deciding on the same.
>
> 1) Title: glustereventsd does not start on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649054
>
> @aravinda, any updates? Should we wait, of will this take more time?
>
> IMO, this is not a prio for the interim release as the main focus is the
log floods and crashes which are affecting production for a lot of users.
Can this go into the next release?


> 2) Title: glusterfs FUSE client crashing every few days with 'Failed to
> dispatch handler'
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671556
>
> All patches against the bug are merged, but bug remains in POST state,
> as none of the patches claim that the issue "Fixes" the reported problem.
>
> Are we awaiting more patches for the same? Du/Milind/Nithya?
>

The crash fixes - this should do for the moment though one user has
reported a crash even after turning off wb. IMO, we should go ahead with
what we have. @Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp at redhat.com> , what do you
think?


>
> 3) Title: flooding of "dict is NULL" logging & crash of client process
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671603
>
> Still in NEW state, Du/Amar, do we have a date for resolution?
>
> Thanks,
> Shyam
> On 2/18/19 10:13 AM, Shyam Ranganathan wrote:
> > We have more blockers against 5.4 now marked. Would like to ask the list
> > and understand what we want to get done with by 5.4 and what the
> > timeline looks like.
> >
> > The bug list:
> >
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1667103&bug_id_type=anddependson&format=tvp
> >
> > 1) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1649054
> > Title: glustereventsd does not start on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
> > Assignee: Aravinda
> > @aravinda can we understand target dates here?
> >
> > 2) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671556
> > Title: glusterfs FUSE client crashing every few days with 'Failed to
> > dispatch handler'
> > Assignee: Nithya (working on Du and Milind)
> > @du/@milind can we get an update on this bug and how far away we are?
> >
> > 3) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1671603
> > Title: flooding of "dict is NULL" logging & crash of client process
> > Assignee: None (Amar has most of the comments)
> > @amar, do we need 2 bugs here? Also, how far away is a fix?
> >
> > 4) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1676356
> > Title: glusterfs FUSE client crashing every few days with 'Failed to
> > dispatch handler'
> > Assignee: Du
> > @du, we are still waiting to get
> > https://review.gluster.org/c/glusterfs/+/22189 merged, right?
> >
> > Shyam
> > On 2/13/19 4:09 AM, Raghavendra Gowdappa wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:24 PM Nithya Balachandran <
> nbalacha at redhat.com
> >> <mailto:nbalacha at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Adding Raghavendra G and Milind who are working on the patches so
> >>     they can update on when they should be ready.
> >>
> >>     On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 at 20:26, Shyam Ranganathan <srangana at redhat.com
> >>     <mailto:srangana at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>         Hi,
> >>
> >>         There have been several crashes and issues reported by users on
> the
> >>         latest 5.3 release. Around 10 patches have been merged since 5.3
> >>         and we
> >>         have a few more addressing the blockers against 5.4 [1].
> >>
> >>         The original date was March 10th, but we would like to
> >>         accelerate a 5.4
> >>         release to earlier this month, once all critical blockers are
> fixed.
> >>
> >>         Hence there are 3 asks in this mail,
> >>
> >>         1) Packaging team, would it be possible to accommodate an 5.4
> >>         release
> >>         around mid-next week (RC0 for rel-6 is also on the same week)?
> >>         Assuming
> >>         we get the required fixes by then.
> >>
> >>         2) Maintainers, what other issues need to be tracked as
> >>         blockers? Please
> >>         add them to [1].
> >>
> >>         3) Current blocker status reads as follows:
> >>         - Bug 1651246 - Failed to dispatch handler
> >>           - This shows 2 patches that are merged, but there is no patch
> that
> >>         claims this is "Fixed" hence bug is still in POST state. What
> other
> >>         fixes are we expecting on this?
> >>           - @Milind request you to update the status
> >>
> >>         - Bug 1671556 - glusterfs FUSE client crashing every few days
> with
> >>         'Failed to dispatch handler'
> >>           - Awaiting fixes for identified issues
> >>           - @Nithya what would be the target date?
> >>
> >>
> >> Fix @ https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/22189/
> >>
> >> waiting on reviews. I am hoping to get this merged by end of this week
> >> and send a backport.
> >>
> >>
> >>         - Bug 1671603 - flooding of "dict is NULL" logging & crash of
> >>         client process
> >>           - Awaiting a fix, what is the potential target date for the
> same?
> >>           - We also need the bug assigned to a person
> >>
> >>         Thanks,
> >>         Shyam
> >>
> >>         [1] Release 5.4 tracker:
> >>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=glusterfs-5.4
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