Bogus hobbitfetch reds and purples
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I have hobbitfetch working nicely for data fetching, but it continually goes red, then purple, with a detail of "-Program crashed" and "Fatal signal caught!". When this happens, it's still fetching the client data without a hitch as far as I can see. When I came in this morning, I had the purple, with "Status unchanged in 0 hours 22 minutes", since I started writing this, it's gone to red with "Status unchanged in 0 hours 3 minutes", all the while happily updating the client data. hobbitfetch.log has 0 length and was last touched about four hours ago. hobbitlaunch.log says "hobbitlaunch.log:2007-06-04 08:34:22 Task hobbitfetch terminated by signal 6". The client data display available through the hobbitfetch status page is stamped 8:32:35 and clearly shows the hobbitfetch process running. Clues?
list Daniel J McDonald
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On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 08:38 -0400, Hobbit User wrote:
I have hobbitfetch working nicely for data fetching, but it continually goes red, then purple, with a detail of "-Program crashed" and "Fatal signal caught!". When this happens, it's still fetching the client data without a hitch as far as I can see. When I came in this morning, I had the purple, with "Status unchanged in 0 hours 22 minutes", since I started writing this, it's gone to red with "Status unchanged in 0 hours 3 minutes", all the while happily updating the client data. hobbitfetch.log has 0 length and was last touched about four hours ago. hobbitlaunch.log says "hobbitlaunch.log:2007-06-04 08:34:22 Task hobbitfetch terminated by signal 6". The client data display available through the hobbitfetch status page is stamped 8:32:35 and clearly shows the hobbitfetch process running. Clues?
Be glad it doesn't just sit and consume 100% cpu, like it does a couple of times a day on my box. At that point, hobbitfetch turns yellow and all of the tests being fetched turn purple. I think it is horribly broken, but I have no workaround, so I'm up for killing the hobbitfetch process two or three times a day... -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com
list Hobbit User
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On Mon, June 4, 2007 08:49, Daniel J McDonald wrote:
Be glad it doesn't just sit and consume 100% cpu, like it does a couple of times a day on my box. At that point, hobbitfetch turns yellow and all of the tests being fetched turn purple. I think it is horribly broken, but I have no workaround, so I'm up for killing the hobbitfetch process two or three times a day...
Hoo, boy. I'm getting queasier about this all the time. Since the hobbitfetch alert results were meaningless, I put in a NOCOLUMNS:hobbitfetch and did a bb "drop host hobbitfetch". The column went away, and then CAME BACK SPONTANEOUSLY! AiggggHHHH! Oh, wait a minute, hobbitfetch is not in the list of supported columns for NOCOLUMNS. I'm not sure I can stomach doing the column drop every minute in a cron job, so lessee, maybe: group-except hobbitfetch Hobbit Display Server...yeah, yeah, that's it....