Environment
Novell ZENworks Linux Management Linux Management 6.6.1 - ZLM 6.6.1
Novell ZENworks Linux Management Linux Management 6.6.2 - ZLM 6.6.2
Situation
RCD (Red Carpet Daemon) will not start successfully. RCD crashes,
and the contents of the /var/log/rcd/rcd-messages file contain
errors similar to:
ERROR: rcd-ERROR **: file rcd-world-remote.c: line 305 (rcd_world_remote_fetch_distributions): assertion failed: (buffer != NULL)
aborting...
Crash!
[Wed 24 14:50:29 PM] rcd has crashed.
Attempting to write backtrace to /tmp/rcd-crash.5328
ERROR: rcd-ERROR **: file rcd-world-remote.c: line 305 (rcd_world_remote_fetch_distributions): assertion failed: (buffer != NULL)
aborting...
Crash!
[Wed 24 14:50:29 PM] rcd has crashed.
Attempting to write backtrace to /tmp/rcd-crash.5328
Resolution
In some cases, the distribution identifier file can become
corrupted. This causes RCD to quit when it cannot determine the
Linux distribution of the host machine.
To fix this, delete any files in the /var/cache/rcd/distro_info/ directory, and restart RCD.
Typically to start RCD, type '/etc/init.d/rcd start' at the console.
To fix this, delete any files in the /var/cache/rcd/distro_info/ directory, and restart RCD.
Typically to start RCD, type '/etc/init.d/rcd start' at the console.