smart-data-dump --syslog producing errors and spamming root@
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	• Marostegui
	May 12 2020, 6:37 AM

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There are lots of mails sent to root@ coming from different hosts with the following:

/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump --syslog --outfile /var/lib/prometheus/node.d/device_smart.prom

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump", line 459, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump", line 438, in main
    for pd in handler():
  File "/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump", line 182, in hpsa_list_pd
    return hpsa_parse(raw_output, lsscsi_list_dev())
  File "/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump", line 227, in lsscsi_list_dev
    return lsscsi_parse(_check_output('/usr/bin/lsscsi -t -g'))
  File "/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump", line 243, in lsscsi_parse
    output[m[1]] = m[2]
TypeError: '_sre.SRE_Match' object is not subscriptable

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T294906 Puppet Improvements
Duplicate	jbond	T265138 Work required to prepare for puppet 7
Resolved	SLyngshede-WMF	T273673 replace all puppet crons with systemd timers
Open	None	T132324 Tracking and Reducing cron-spam to root@
Resolved	colewhite	T252500 smart-data-dump --syslog producing errors and spamming root@

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• Marostegui created this task.May 12 2020, 6:37 AM

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• Marostegui triaged this task as Medium priority.May 12 2020, 6:37 AM

• Marostegui moved this task from Backlog to Acknowledged on the SRE board.

• Marostegui added a parent task: T132324: Tracking and Reducing cron-spam to root@ .May 12 2020, 6:40 AM

cc @colewhite

Thanks for the report!

There was a bug in the updated hpsa parser on initial deployment that fired these emails. It was caught the same day and was fixed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/594989.

There are reports from early today from dbprov2001 for instance.

I found the email you are referring to. Logs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump", line 459, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump", line 429, in main
    raid_drivers = get_fact('raid')
  File "/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump", line 134, in get_fact
    facter_version = int(_check_output('/usr/bin/facter --version', stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL)
  File "/usr/local/sbin/smart-data-dump", line 123, in _check_output
    return subprocess.check_output(cmd, stderr=stderr) \
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 316, in check_output
    **kwargs).stdout
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/subprocess.py", line 398, in run
    output=stdout, stderr=stderr)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/timeout', '60', '/usr/bin/facter', '--version']' returned non-zero exit status 124

The output from dbprov2001 indicates a different issue manifested as a timeout fetching facter data. Although it's a bit surprising that facter timed out fetching its version.

There is an existing task for facter timeouts: T251293. I will copy these logs to that task as well.

Edit: At the time smart-data-dump ran, the disk was saturated (See 09:12).

Thanks Cole!

jijiki reopened this task as Open.Aug 26 2020, 3:10 PM

jijiki added a project: DBA.

Reopened the wrong task, re-closing. Nothing to see here, move along.

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