broken pipe

[N. Leenders]

Hi Ken,
Thx for sending these ideas, I did finally check kpropd, but not with
strace and I didn't figure out what was wrong.  I gave up and re-installed
and the second time it worked.
 - Nadine


On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Ken Raeburn wrote:

> "N. Leenders" <nadine at ualberta.ca> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm attempting to set up a slave kdc, but am getting a broken pipe
> > message:
> >
> > kprop -f /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/slave_datatrans nickerberos2.nic.ualberta.ca
> > Broken pipe
>
> Is there any error logged by kpropd on the other side?
>
> > write(4, "\0\0\32\313", 4)              = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe)
> > --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) ---
> > +++ killed by SIGPIPE +++
> >
> >
> > Any ideas what to check?
>
> It looks like the server is dropping the connection for some reason.
> Perhaps it's crashing.  Perhaps it's decided that the client principal
> sending the data shouldn't be allowed to send it; I don't know offhand
> if the error is properly reported to the client in that case.  Have
> you checked the ACL on the receiving side to ensure that the sending
> host's host principal is listed?
>
> If there's nothing logged, try running kpropd under strace too...
>
> Ken
>