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Re: upgrading binary failed - execve - too long argument list

Francis Daly
April 28, 2021 08:18AM
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:35:58PM +0200, Charlie Kilo wrote:

Hi there,

I don't know the answer here, but...

> i'm trying to upgrade an nginx-binary while running.
> When i do kill -s USR2 <pid>, i get the following error in the logs..
>
> 11:40:38 [alert] 52701#0: execve() failed while executing new binary
> process "/opt/sbin/nginx" (7: Argument list too long)

https://wiki.debian.org/CommonErrorMessages/ArgumentListTooLong (last
modified in 2009) says that that happens when execve() "is unable to
fit the supplied argument list and environment into the 128K buffer".

> Anybody knows what exactly is in those arguments ? We have ~ 20-55 worker
> processes if that might be related..

Does "ps -ef" (possibly "| grep nginx") show the arguments involved?

And, with the right permissions,

wc -c /proc/*/environ 2>/dev/null | sort -rn | less

can show you the size of each process environment that you can read. If
you know the process id (PID) involved, you can just "wc -c" that one
directly.

That might hint at whether there is actually something very big involved,
or whether something else has gone wrong and the wrong error message is
being reported.

Good luck with it,

f
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upgrading binary failed - execve - too long argument list

Charlie Kilo April 27, 2021 06:38AM

Re: upgrading binary failed - execve - too long argument list

Francis Daly April 28, 2021 08:18AM

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Maxim Dounin April 28, 2021 05:14PM

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Mathew Heard April 28, 2021 06:58PM

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Charlie Kilo April 30, 2021 02:30AM

Re: upgrading binary failed - execve - too long argument list

Charlie Kilo April 30, 2021 05:16AM

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Maxim Dounin May 04, 2021 11:54AM

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Mathew Heard May 04, 2021 08:44PM

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Charlie Kilo May 08, 2021 04:02AM

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Maxim Dounin May 09, 2021 11:28AM

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Charlie Kilo May 10, 2021 06:04AM

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itpp2012 May 10, 2021 06:53AM

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Charlie Kilo May 10, 2021 02:48PM



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