[PVE-User] Strange Perl warning on PVE 3.2 node

[Eneko Lacunza]

Hi all,

We have a PVE 3.2 node at a customer that has started to log some Perl 
warnings to syslog:

Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 1.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 2.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 3.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 4.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 5.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 6.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 7.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 8.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 9.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 10.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 11.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 12.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 13.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 14.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 15.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 16.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 17.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 18.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 19.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 20.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 21.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 22.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 23.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 24.
Jan 11 12:33:42 gorbea pvestatd[217188]: WARNING: Hexadecimal number > 
0xffffffff non-portable at /usr/share/perl5/PVE/Tools.pm line 795, 
<GEN1464860629> line 25.

Logrotate script also generates this kind of logs. Any idea what could 
be the cause?

# pveversion -v
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 3.2-124 (running kernel: 2.6.32-28-pve)
pve-manager: 3.2-2 (running version: 3.2-2/82599a65)
pve-kernel-2.6.32-28-pve: 2.6.32-124
pve-kernel-2.6.32-26-pve: 2.6.32-114
lvm2: 2.02.98-pve4
clvm: 2.02.98-pve4
corosync-pve: 1.4.5-1
openais-pve: 1.1.4-3
libqb0: 0.11.1-2
redhat-cluster-pve: 3.2.0-2
resource-agents-pve: 3.9.2-4
fence-agents-pve: 4.0.5-1
pve-cluster: 3.0-12
qemu-server: 3.1-15
pve-firmware: 1.1-2
libpve-common-perl: 3.0-14
libpve-access-control: 3.0-11
libpve-storage-perl: 3.0-19
pve-libspice-server1: 0.12.4-3
vncterm: 1.1-6
vzctl: 4.0-1pve5
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.1-2
pve-qemu-kvm: 1.7-6
ksm-control-daemon: 1.1-1
glusterfs-client: 3.4.2-1

This node is quite critical and we cannot upgrade it to 3.4 lightly 
(we're looking for an adequate date-time)

Thanks
Eneko

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