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Purple after RC5 install

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list Chuck Morrison · Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:40:09 -0700 · 
I installed RC5 on a new server today after running RC3 for several weeks without a problem. Initially RC5 picked up right away and was fine. After about an hour I now get purple on all conn, ssh, http and bdb items for every server monitored (including the hobbit server) on the main page. Each sub page I go to shows a purple background, but OK on each test.

This is a new install, I wiped the RC3 server, installed an OS upgrade (formatted everything) and reinstalled RC5 as new, using only the old bb-hosts file.

Any hints on what this could be ?

Chuck Morrison
list Henrik Størner · Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:48:05 +0100 ·
▸ quoted from Chuck Morrison
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:40:09PM -0700, chuck morrison wrote:
I installed RC5 on a new server today after running RC3 for several weeks without a problem. Initially RC5 picked up right away and was fine. After about an hour I now get purple on all conn, ssh, http and bdb items for every server monitored (including the hobbit server) on the main page. Each sub page I go to shows a purple background, but OK on each test.
Sounds like the network tests stopped running. Could you check in the
/var/log/hobbit/bb-network.log file if there are any messages about
what happened ?

Also, just to be certain, see if there is a section in
hobbitlaunch.cfg to actually run the "bbtest-net" command. Upgrading
Hobbit does update the hobbitlaunch.cfg file, and it just might be
that somehow it stripped a section out of the file. (It shouldn't, but
you know how things can be buggy :-))


Henrik
list Chuck Morrison · Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:07:15 -0700 · 
I found the problem. I did a minor edit to the bb-hosts file and in the process changed, on one line "http://xxxxx"; to "http//xxxxx" This caused the purple condition as the bb-network core dumped and didn't succeed in any further tests. Correcting the entry solved the problem.

Thanks for the help. Hobbit has proven it's worth to us.
▸ quoted from Henrik Størner


Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:40:09PM -0700, chuck morrison wrote:
 
I installed RC5 on a new server today after running RC3 for several weeks without a problem. Initially RC5 picked up right away and was fine. After about an hour I now get purple on all conn, ssh, http and bdb items for every server monitored (including the hobbit server) on the main page. Each sub page I go to shows a purple background, but OK on each test.
   
Sounds like the network tests stopped running. Could you check in the
/var/log/hobbit/bb-network.log file if there are any messages about
what happened ?

Also, just to be certain, see if there is a section in
hobbitlaunch.cfg to actually run the "bbtest-net" command. Upgrading
Hobbit does update the hobbitlaunch.cfg file, and it just might be
that somehow it stripped a section out of the file. (It shouldn't, but
you know how things can be buggy :-))


Henrik
list Henrik Størner · Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:34:13 +0100 ·
▸ quoted from Chuck Morrison
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:07:15PM -0700, chuck morrison wrote:
I found the problem. I did a minor edit to the bb-hosts file and in the process changed, on one line "http://xxxxx"; to "http//xxxxx" This caused the purple condition as the bb-network core dumped and didn't succeed in any further tests. Correcting the entry solved the problem.
Good! ... and bad because I need to take a look at bbtest-net and
figure out why it breaks on that URL. But that should be fairly simple
to test.


Henrik