[hobbit] rrd update error after 4.2 install

Rich Smrcina rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
Sun Aug 27 08:54:00 CEST 2006


I expected as much and will work on a mass dump and restore script.

Thanks.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 09:51:04PM -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote:
>> All of the history seems just fine, but updating the rrd files seems 
>> problematic.  For each host and test that causes an rrd update of a 
>> copied file, I get the following in /var/log/hobbit/rrd-status.log:
>>
>> 2006-08-26 21:46:02 RRD error updating 
>> /home/hobbit/data/rrd/vtpsrv/memory.actual.rrd from 172.17.0.12: 
>> rrd->ds_def malloc
>>
>> The old system was architecture s390 (which is 32-bit) the new system is 
>> architecture s390x (which is 64-bit).  Is that the difference, or are 
>> there other reasons that rrd files not transportable?
> 
> In general you cannot move rrd files across different platforms
> without doing an "rrdtool dump" on the old system and "rrdtool restore"
> on the new one.
> 
> I have never seen this particular error before, but it is something from
> the rrdtool library, so I would suspect that this is the problem.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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