MySQL Bugs: #42753: ndb_error_reporter creates only empty tarballs if not using gnu-tar

Bug #42753	ndb_error_reporter creates only empty tarballs if not using gnu-tar
Submitted:	11 Feb 2009 8:49	Modified:	15 Feb 2009 20:05
Reporter:	Guido Ostkamp	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Cluster: Cluster (NDB) storage engine	Severity:	S2 (Serious)
Version:	*	OS:	Solaris
Assigned to:	Jonas Oreland	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
We are using MySQL 6.4 version jonas@mysql.com-20090204124234-btvep0nz9e2vk030 dated Wed 2009-02-04 13:42:34 +0100, on Solaris 10 Sparc.

The NDB error reporter always creates empty tarballs after collecting the data.

How to repeat:
Use ndb_error_reporter on Solaris 10 Sparc cluster.

Suggested fix:
The file storage/ndb/tools/ndb_error_reporter contains calls like this:
  system "tar c $reportdir|bzip2 > $outfile";
or 
  system "tar c $reportdir|gzip > $outfile";

That syntax doesn't work under Solaris, it must be changed to

  system "tar cf - $reportdir|bzip2 > $outfile";
or 
  system "tar cf - $reportdir|gzip > $outfile";

A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/65991

2816 Jonas Oreland	2009-02-12
      ndb - bug#42753 - ndb_error_reporter produces empty reports if not using gnu-tar

A patch for this bug has been committed. After review, it may
be pushed to the relevant source trees for release in the next
version. You can access the patch from:

  http://lists.mysql.com/commits/65994

2815 Jonas Oreland	2009-02-12
      ndb - bug#42753 - ndb_error_reporter produces empty reports if not using gnu-tar

Pushed into 5.1.31-ndb-6.2.17 (revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090212082900-dx2r04bh8f7ya7fk) (version source revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090212082900-dx2r04bh8f7ya7fk) (merge vers: 5.1.31-ndb-6.2.17) (pib:6)

Pushed into 5.1.31-ndb-6.3.23 (revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090212083026-oi41lqp2x1r9hjcv) (version source revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090212083026-oi41lqp2x1r9hjcv) (merge vers: 5.1.31-ndb-6.3.23) (pib:6)

Pushed into 5.1.31-ndb-6.4.3 (revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090212083219-qlxgvuuao2q3pyxw) (version source revid:jonas@mysql.com-20090212083219-qlxgvuuao2q3pyxw) (merge vers: 5.1.31-ndb-6.4.3) (pib:6)

patch is perfect... not sure where else this might be a problem.... likely candidates are HPUX and AIX.

Of course, this script doesn't work on Win32, so that'll have to be tackled at some point in teh Win32 port dev.

Documented in the NDB-6.2.17, 6.3.23, and 6.4.3 changelogs as follows:

        ndb_error_reporter worked correctly only with GNU tar. (With
        other versions of tar, it produced empty archives.)