Re: script exits prematurely with no stderr output, but with system errors

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Subject	Re: script exits prematurely with no stderr output, but with system errors
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On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:32 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com>
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> I have a script that I run a lot - at least 10 time every day. Usually
> it works fine. But sometime it just stops running with nothing output
> to stdout or stderr. I've been trying to debug this for a while, and
> today I looked in the system logs and saw this:
>
> abrt: detected unhandled Python exception in
> '/home/prod_user/python/make_workitem_list.py'
> abrtd: Directory 'pyhook-2016-03-19-22:20:43-26461' creation detected
> abrt-server[3688]: Saved Python crash dump of pid 26461 to
> /var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2016-03-19-22:20:43-26461
> abrtd: Executable '/home/prod_user/python/make_workitem_list.py'
> doesn't belong to any package and ProcessUnpackaged is set to 'no'
> abrtd: 'post-create' on
> '/var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2016-03-19-22:20:43-26461' exited with 1
> abrtd: Deleting problem directory
> '/var/spool/abrt/pyhook-2016-03-19-22:20:43-26461'
> abrtd: make_workitem_list: page allocation failure. order:1, mode:0x20
> abrtd: Pid: 31870, comm: make_workitem_list Not tainted
> 2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 #1
>
> I have never seen anything like this before. Usually, if there is an
> unhandled exception something is dumped to stderr. Anyone have any
> idea what is going on? How can I get it to not delete this crash dump
> it mentioned? I guess I can put a big exception handler around the
> enter script with a traceback.
>
> This is on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago).
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Googling I found this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2628901/interpreting-kernel-message-page-allocation-failure-order1

It seems that the kernel can't allocate memory is a likely cause.

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