[hobbit] Hobbit server doesn't start on CentOS 5 with hobbit-4.2.0 installed

[Josh Luthman]

Do you have SELinux installed and running by chance?

On 11/30/07, Sebastian <spa at syntec.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  I uninstalled hobbit-4.2.0-7.el5.re.i386.rpm and compiled hobbit-4.2.0from source with the
> allinone.patch and get exactly the same error.
>
> It might be worth noting that this was originally a minimum CentOS 5
> install - I had to install gcc-c++ (and rrd-devel and pcre-devel) to compile
> hobbit, and I previously had to install gcc for compiling some other
> software - all from yum.
>
> The server has 2 GB of RAM but is running several other services.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* 29 November 2007 18:44
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Hobbit server doesn't start on CentOS 5 with
> hobbit-4.2.0-7.el5.re.i386.rpm installed
>
> Just compile it from source.  If you don't know how to do that I can give
> you instructions command by command, just ask.  I use CentOS5 on my boxes
> but I've never bothered with the RPM.
>
> On 11/29/07, Sebastian <spa at syntec.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >  I installed an RPM of hobbit-4.2.0 called
> > hobbit-4.2.0-7.el5.re.i386.rpm, which I probably got from here:
> > *http://rpm.razorsedge.org/centos-5/RE/repodata/repoview/hobbit-4-4.2.0-7.el5.re.html
> > *<http://rpm.razorsedge.org/centos-5/RE/repodata/repoview/hobbit-4-4.2.0-7.el5.re.html>
> > It includes the All-in-one patch.  So I configured the cfg files and
> > started hobbit, but I get this in hobbitlaunch.log:
> >
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 hobbitlaunch starting
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Loading tasklist configuration from
> > /usr/libexec/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Loading hostnames
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Loading saved state
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Cannot access checkpoint file
> > /usr/libexec/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Setting up signal handlers
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Setting up hobbitd channels
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Could not get shm of size 262144: No space left on
> > device
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Cannot setup status channel
> > 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1
> >
> > This is the first time I've started it, so I presume that this is
> > normal:  "Cannot access checkpoint file
> > /usr/libexec/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore".  The problem looks
> > like this:  "Could not get shm of size 262144: No space left on device".  I
> > see that there are two similar issues listed on *http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html
> > * <http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html>that relate to
> > FreeBSD, but none of the sysctl keys listed are in this version of Linux:
> >
> > # cat /proc/version
> > Linux version 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.centos.plus (mockbuild at builder6.centos.org
> > ) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)) #1 SMP Thu Oct 25
> > 06:49:40 EDT 2007
> >
> > Google returns 1 result for "Could not get shm of size" "No space left
> > on device" and that was the Known Issues page I've already checked.  Any
> > ideas?
> >
> > Also, I noticed that the hobbitd.pid file did not get deleted when
> > hobbitd terminated.  It seems like it should have been.
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
>
>
>
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