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Hobbit_d crashing - help!

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list Kimberly McKinnis · Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:09:25 -0800 ·
This is bad. Especially since this system goes live at 4am. 

hobbitd_alert
- Program crashed

Fatal signal caught!

How can I prevent this? Is this a bug somewhere?

I don't see anything in the logs, unless I'm looking in the wrong place.
/var/logs/hobbit logs are pretty empty, save for notifications.log. 

sc-isus-boot hobbit # cat hobbitd.log
2006-02-03 12:32:43 Setup complete
sc-isus-boot hobbit #
list Henrik Størner · Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:17:06 +0100 ·
quoted from Kimberly McKinnis
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:09:25PM -0800, Kimberly McKinnis wrote:
This is bad. Especially since this system goes live at 4am. 

hobbitd_alert
- Program crashed

Fatal signal caught!

How can I prevent this? Is this a bug somewhere?
Yes, it's a bug. It only affects alerts - it's the "hobbitd_alert"
module that crashes, not hobbitd itself.

If this is version 4.1.2, then there's a known bug which is fixed in
4.1.2p1 that has this effect. It's mostly an annoyance, though - 
alerts are not lost because of this, since hobbitlaunch will immediately
re-start the alert task.
quoted from Kimberly McKinnis
I don't see anything in the logs, unless I'm looking in the wrong place.
/var/logs/hobbit logs are pretty empty, save for notifications.log. 
hobbitlaunch.log should have a notice about the task terminating
with a signal, and you should have a core file in the ~hobbit/data/tmp/
directory.


Henrik
list Kimberly McKinnis · Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:42:29 -0800 ·
Thanks Henrik.

Interestingly, I am running 4.1.2p1... Fresh install. I apologize for
not noting that in my original email.

I dropped the test and haven't seen it crash again yet. I appreciate the
reassurance that alerts are not lost, that's what matters most :) I was
more worried about it happening again, as I couldn't find a cause. 
quoted from Henrik Størner

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 12:17 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit_d crashing - help!

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:09:25PM -0800, Kimberly McKinnis wrote:
This is bad. Especially since this system goes live at 4am. 

hobbitd_alert
- Program crashed

Fatal signal caught!

How can I prevent this? Is this a bug somewhere?
Yes, it's a bug. It only affects alerts - it's the "hobbitd_alert"
module that crashes, not hobbitd itself.

If this is version 4.1.2, then there's a known bug which is fixed in
4.1.2p1 that has this effect. It's mostly an annoyance, though - alerts
are not lost because of this, since hobbitlaunch will immediately
re-start the alert task.
I don't see anything in the logs, unless I'm looking in the wrong
place.
/var/logs/hobbit logs are pretty empty, save for notifications.log. 
hobbitlaunch.log should have a notice about the task terminating with a
signal, and you should have a core file in the ~hobbit/data/tmp/
directory.


Henrik