[hobbit] rrd update error after 4.2 install

[Henrik Stoerner]

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