On 08/16/10 03:42 AM, Michael Schuster wrote:
All,

I'm running build 145 on a 4cpu intel box, and noticed that things
seemed sluggish, so I ran prstat and saw svc.configd right at the top;
at a hunch, I looked at the output of "svcs -a | tail" and saw that
svc:/application/pkg/server:default was being continuously being restarted.

looking at the log, I saw this (just lots more of it ;-)

pkg.depotd: The path '/var/pkg/repo' does not contain a valid package
repository.
[ Aug 16 12:30:34 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Aug 16 12:30:34 Executing start method
("//lib/svc/method/svc-pkg-depot start"). ]
Dropping net_privaddr privilege.
ppriv -s A=basic,-file_link_any,-proc_info,-proc_session,net_privaddr -e
/usr/lib/pkg.depotd --cfg svc:/application/pkg/server:default
pkg.depotd: The path '/var/pkg/repo' does not contain a valid package
repository.
[ Aug 16 12:30:34 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Aug 16 12:30:34 Executing start method
("//lib/svc/method/svc-pkg-depot start"). ]
Dropping net_privaddr privilege.
ppriv -s A=basic,-file_link_any,-proc_info,-proc_session,net_privaddr -e
/usr/lib/pkg.depotd --cfg svc:/application/pkg/server:default
pkg.depotd: The path '/var/pkg/repo' does not contain a valid package
repository.
[ Aug 16 12:30:34 Stopping because all processes in service exited. ]
[ Aug 16 12:30:34 Executing start method
("//lib/svc/method/svc-pkg-depot start"). ]
Dropping net_privaddr privilege.
ppriv -s A=basic,-file_link_any,-proc_info,-proc_session,net_privaddr -e
/usr/lib/pkg.depotd --cfg svc:/application/pkg/server:default
pkg.depotd: The path '/var/pkg/repo' does not contain a valid package
repository.

I've now disabled this service, and prstat shows that system load is
back to normal ... but my question is: how did the above come about
(btw: I disabled pkg/update a while ago, I never use the graphical
update anyway).

You have a misconfigured depot server, and because of this bug:

https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15761

...it got stuck in a loop.

-Shawn
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