*** (0.001) *** [Linux-HA] base64_to_binary: input length invalid

[Alan Robertson]

Luettgen, John (N-ENSCO) wrote:
> Lars and others,
> 
> I have a newer version, not ancient, of heartbeat 2.0.7 where the serial device appears to have issues.  Kernel is 2.6 running under sles9.  Care to assist please?
> 
> The messages file contents coincide with the ha-debug strange output?
> 
> Feb 22 15:24:44 uspstms2 kernel: ttyS0: 1 input overrun(s)
> Feb 22 15:24:45 uspstms2 heartbeat: base64_to_binary: input length invalid.
> Feb 22 15:24:54 uspstms2 kernel: ttyS0: 3 input overrun(s)
> Feb 22 15:25:14 uspstms2 kernel: ttyS0: 1 input overrun(s)

My guess is that the input overrun caused some packet corruption.  That
is presumably what caused the base64_to_binary problem.

How often does this happen?

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