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Why did my Splunkforwarder stop with the error "WatchedFile - About to assert due to: destroying state while still cached..." in the splunkd.log?

joe7409
New Member

Splunkforwarder stops with the below error in the splunkd.log:

0500 ERROR WatchedFile - About to assert due to: destroying state while still cached: state=0x0x7f0e5991c780 wtf=0x0x7f0e5992f200 off=0 initcrc=0xeecf05
88f22411cc scrc=0x0 fallbackcrc=0x0 last_eof_time=1424150223 reschedule_target=0 is_cached=343536 fd_valid=true exists=true last_char_newline=true on_block_boundary=true only_no
tified_once=false was_replaced=true eof_seconds=3 unowned=false always_read=false was_too_new=false is_batch=true name="/var/log/mongo/rotated/mongod.log.2015-02-17.1424150222"
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sgarvin55
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This is a Known Issue, SPL-94913 and fixed in Splunk 6.2.2.

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mookiie2005
Communicator

I downvoted this post because we are running splunk 6.4.0 and have the same issue.

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JimDeich
Path Finder

I know this mean the file was in a transient state but I need a work-around for this also. It seem splunk should just drop the file and
go on.

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