hobbit startup problems

[Adam Scheblein <adam.scheblein (at) marquette.edu>]

Greetings,

I just did a fresh install of the most recent hobbit using the 
directions at the hobbit site 
(http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/install.html), however whenever i 
do a ./server/hobbit.sh start i get a hobbitd <defunct> and then nothing 
else happens..

hobbit (at) phantom ~ $ ps -ef |grep hobbit
hobbit   32587  6990  0 12:26 pts/0    00:00:00 su - hobbit
hobbit   32588 32587  0 12:26 pts/0    00:00:00 -bash
hobbit   10191     1  0 12:29 ?        00:00:00 
/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch 
--config=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg 
--env=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 
--log=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log 
--pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.pid
hobbit   10522 10191  0 12:29 ?        00:00:00 [hobbitd] <defunct>
hobbit   10567 32588  0 12:29 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -ef
hobbit   10568 32588  0 12:29 pts/0    00:00:00 grep hobbit

hobbit (at) phantom ~ $ ps -ef |grep hobbit
hobbit   32587  6990  0 12:26 pts/0    00:00:00 su - hobbit
hobbit   32588 32587  0 12:26 pts/0    00:00:00 -bash
hobbit   10191     1  0 12:29 ?        00:00:00 
/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitlaunch 
--config=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg 
--env=/usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg 
--log=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log 
--pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.pid
hobbit   10588 32588  0 12:29 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -ef
hobbit   10590 32588  0 12:29 pts/0    00:00:00 grep hobbit

I am running the following:
Linux phantom 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 #1 SMP i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 
2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

any help is appreciated.

thanks,
Adam