I think you're hitting the exact same problem I had that Henrik responded to me just over a week ago. So far after following Henrik's advice I have no had any repeats of the same problem.
Quoting Henrik:
Adding a "--no-ares" option to the bbtest-net command in
hobbitlaunch.cfg might help; we know there is a bug in the C-ARES
library used for DNS lookups, but it is apparently something which only triggers occasionally (or in specific setups).
Rob Munsch <user-f39e4aae1456@xymon.invalid> 01/30/2007 11:11 AM
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Rob Munsch wrote:
On my hobbit server, hobbitd_client is crashing continuously and I don't
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version 4.2.0.
I have a core file, where shall i send it?
This is still occurring. I keep dropping the test manually, but it crashes and goes red again. Any ideas?
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