Problems with ZMD/parse-metadata on 10.1 - system hang

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Hi,

I was wondering if anyone else is having problems with ZMD, specifically parse-metadata, on 10.1?

Last weekend, my system went down unexpectedly. I have syslog forwarding everything to a remote system, but couldn’t find anything suggestive in the logs. At first I thought the issue might be with MythTV, which is the main service the box provides (it’s a desktop running MythTV and the requisite Apache and MySQL, as well as providing SSH and syslog forwarding to a remote box). However, I was unable to uncover any problems with it, and the hang (hard hang - no input at all, no Ctrl+Alt+Del, no ping reply, nothing) recurred even with MythBackend disabled.

The problem did not, however, occur when in Runlevel 1.

I booted yet again (this is after an hour or two of tailing logs, both locally on the remote machine, plus running rkhunter and everything else I could think of), and decided to open a few logs remotely via SSH and wait for the box to hang again.

It did hang, without any relevant log entries. However, my running “top” process captured parse-metadata at the top of the list, in state “S” but taking up 9.6% of CPU.

Any ideas? Will anything “bad” happen if I just rpm -e zmd?

Thanks,
Jason

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On 08/06/2008 jantman wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone else is having problems with ZMD,
> specifically parse-metadata, on 10.1?

ZMD is the problem. Get rid of it (yes, uninstall) and use Smart.
Or update to Opensuse 11, where they finally fixed the package management :slight_smile:

Uwe

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Yup. I disabled the ZMD service last night, and though the system was keeling over after about 10 minutes before, it’s now been running for about 12 hours. I’ll remove the RPM tonight.

Unfortunately, updating to 11 isn’t an option. I actually have 11 on another partition on that disk, but some things related to MythTV and lirc (specifically lirc’s lack of support for the PVR-150 blaster), plus the fact that lirc won’t compile on 11, are forcing me to keep my (now once-again-working) 10.3 install.

So, for anyone else who stops by here:
ZMD Disabled = Everything works again