pfSense 2.6 problem with zombie processes

gofaizen

@stephenw10
Widget throws error in random order.
Error in widget and qemu-guest-agent not in any connect. When I disable qemu-guest-agent widget continues throwing errors in random order. It can work whole day in normal mode, or can throw error every 10 minutes. And it throws error every time after reboot.
qemu-guest-agent make zombie every time after getting data: {"execute":"guest-get-fsinfo"} message from oVirt.

stephenw10

Hmm, well that sounds more like both things are failing because of something else preventing access to the filesystem.

If you run /bin/df -hT manually at the command line repeatedly does it ever fail?

Can we see the output of: /bin/df -hT --libxo=json
Though that too might need to be run until it fails. That's what the widget is trying to do and choking on the output.

Steve

gofaizen

@stephenw10 Yes, I can run df -hT manually. I have checked this in first order.
": [{"name":"/dev/ufsid/60618bb1ebc69388","type":"ufs ","blocks":"5.5G","used":"2.0G","available":"3.1G","used-percent":39,"mounted-on":"/"}, {"name":"devfs","type":"devfs","blocks":"1.0K","used":"1.0K","available":"0B","used-percent":100,"mounted-on":"/dev"}, {"name":"tmpfs","type":"tmpfs","blocks":"4.0M","used":"152K","available":"3.9M","used-percent":4,"mounted-on":"/var/run"}, {"name":"devfs","type":"devfs","blocks":"1.0K","used":"1.0K","available":"0B","used-percent":100,"mounted-on":"/var/dhcpd/dev"}]}

stephenw10

But if you run /bin/df -hT manually at the command line repeatedly does it ever fail? Like after 100 tries?
It will likely only fails as often as the widget does. Or if you happen to run it when the qemu agent is trying to access the filesystem also.

The JSON output there seems to be missing the initial terms. I expect it to read like:

[22.05-DEVELOPMENT][admin@plusdev-2.stevew.lan]/root: /bin/df -hT --libxo=json
{"storage-system-information": {"filesystem": [{"name":"/dev/ufsid/626069f74a9f0e6e","type":"ufs  ","blocks":"9.2G","used":"1.5G","available":"7.0G","used-percent":18,"mounted-on":"/"}, {"name":"devfs","type":"devfs","blocks":"1.0K","used":"1.0K","available":"0B","used-percent":100,"mounted-on":"/dev"}, {"name":"tmpfs","type":"tmpfs","blocks":"4.0M","used":"112K","available":"3.9M","used-percent":3,"mounted-on":"/var/run"}, {"name":"devfs","type":"devfs","blocks":"1.0K","used":"1.0K","available":"0B","used-percent":100,"mounted-on":"/var/dhcpd/dev"}]}
}

Steve

gofaizen

@stephenw10
{"storage-system-information": {"filesystem": [{"name":"/dev/ufsid/60618bb1ebc69388","type":"ufs ","blocks":"5.5G","used":"2.0G","available":"3.1G","used-percent":39,"mounted-on":"/"}, {"name":"devfs","type":"devfs","blocks":"1.0K","used":"1.0K","available":"0B","used-percent":100,"mounted-on":"/dev"}, {"name":"tmpfs","type":"tmpfs","blocks":"4.0M","used":"152K","available":"3.9M","used-percent":4,"mounted-on":"/var/run"}, {"name":"devfs","type":"devfs","blocks":"1.0K","used":"1.0K","available":"0B","used-percent":100,"mounted-on":"/var/dhcpd/dev"}]}
}
Possibly I have copied part of output.

Tried to run /bin/df -hT --libxo=json in loop 1000 times. All times were successful.

#!/bin/sh

for i in seq 1 1000
do
/bin/df -hT --libxo=json
done

stephenw10

Hmm. If you remove the qemu-agent can I assume this goes away?

gofaizen

@stephenw10
When I stopped qemu-ga service zombie processes died.
I have checked it several times. But I need qemu-ga in my oVirt installation.

stephenw10

Hmm, well can you configure it not to query the disk status? I would assume that also solves it.

Can you test qemu-agent in a FreeBSD 12.3 install? Hard to see what but it might be something in base that's changed.

Steve

gofaizen

@stephenw10
I am trying to disable query for file system status in qemu-ga.

gofaizen

@stephenw10
With this parameters -d -v -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -b "guest-get-fsinfo" qemu-ga does not generate zombies.
-b "guest-get-fsinfo" - means - blacklist guest-get-fsinfo command

stephenw10

Mmm, OK. And does that still provide the info you need?

gofaizen

@stephenw10
qemu-ga provides information about interfaces, logged in users and fqdn. I cant see information about guest agent version, OS, timezone, architecture and file systems (i have disabled file system info by myself).

stephenw10

And that's sufficient?

gofaizen

@stephenw10
I would like to get all info from qemu-ga. Like from Linux VM.
FreeBSD qemu-ga has strange behavior - in default config (when -m is not present) I see method - isa-serial. But in VM config - virtio-serial. And when I set virtio-serial in qemu-ga config, qemu-ga can't get any request from oVirt.

qemu-ga -d -v -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -m virtio-serial - does not work
qemu-ga -d -v -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log - works with some restrictions in info

stephenw10

Ok, the next thing I would test here is whether it works as expected in FreeBSD 12.3.
Is this an upstream regression or something we are doing in pfSense specifically.

Steve

gofaizen

@stephenw10
Today I will try FreeBSD 12 on ovirt.
There is qcow image on download.freebsd.org
I will try clear iso and qcow image.

gofaizen

@stephenw10
I tried qemu-ga in FreeBSD 12.3 - working as expected.

stephenw10

Hmm, so something different about our filesystem perhaps?

Permissions issue?

Same qemu-agent version?

There can't be much different there.

gofaizen

@stephenw10
On FreeBSD 12.3 - qemu-ga -V
QEMU Guest Agent 5.0.1

On pfSense - qemu-ga -V
QEMU Guest Agent 5.0.1

Command line on FreeBSD - qemu-ga -m virtio-serial -d -v -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log

Command line on pfSense - /usr/local/bin/qemu-ga -d -v -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -b guest-get-fsinfo

gofaizen

@stephenw10
In FreeBSD I have run /usr/local/bin/qemu-ga -d -v -l /var/log/qemu-ga.log -b guest-get-fsinfo.
And everything works fine.