Excerpts from Rikimaru Honjo's message of 2018-01-09 18:11:09 +0900: > Hello, > > On 2018/01/04 23:12, Doug Hellmann wrote: > > Excerpts from Rikimaru Honjo's message of 2018-01-04 18:22:26 +0900: > >> Hello, > >> > >> The below bug was reported in Masakari's Launchpad. > >> I think that this bug was caused by oslo.log. > >> (And, the root cause is a bug of pyinotify using by oslo.log. The detail is > >> written in the bug report.) > >> > >> * masakari-api failed to launch due to setting of watch_log_file and > >> log_file > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/masakari/+bug/1740111 > >> > >> There is a possibility that this bug will affects all openstack components > >> using oslo.log. > >> (But, the processes working with uwsgi[1] wasn't affected when I tried to > >> reproduce. > >> I haven't solved the reason of this yet...) > >> > >> Could you help us? > >> And, what should we do...? > >> > >> [1] > >> e.g. nova-api, cinder-api, keystone... > >> > >> Best regards, > > > > The bug is in pyinotify. According to the git repo [1] that project > > was last updated in June of 2015. I recommend we move off of > > pyinotify entirely, since it appears to be unmaintained. > > > > If there is another library to do the same thing we should switch > > to it (there seem to be lots of options [2]). If there is no viable > > replacement or fork, we should deprecate that log watching feature > > (and anything else for which we use pyinotify) and remove it ASAP. > > > > We'll need a volunteer to do the evaluation and update oslo.log. > > > > Doug > > > > [1] https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify > > [2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=inotify&submit=search > Thank you for replying. > > I haven't deeply researched, but inotify looks good. > Because "weight" of inotify is the largest, and following text is described. > > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/inotify/0.2.9 > > This project is unrelated to the *PyInotify* project that existed prior to > > this one (this project began in 2015). That project is defunct and no > > longer available. > PyInotify is defunct and no longer available... >
The inotify package seems like a good candidate to replace pyinotify. Have you looked at how hard it would be to change oslo.log? If so, does using the newer library eliminate the bug you had? Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
