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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=SV link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>During the last month, we have had some problems with Xymon when using scheduled disabled (added from the web interface).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The first problem we had was on September 17<sup>th</sup>, when hobbitd crashed while/after running the scheduled disable. We got the following error in hobbit.log <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-09-17 05:00:00 Fatal error in select: Bad file descriptor<br>2010-09-17 05:00:00 Setup complete<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>After that incident, I enabled verbose logging for hobbitd, and turned up the logging for some other process as well. This morning at 06:00 we had a new scheduled disable. This time hobbitd just stopped logging after running the disable. The web interface did not work correctly. When clicking a test, an “Internal server error” message was displayed. Also, the bbgen test went purple (last update at 05:59:26).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The only errors I have been able to find in the logs are in bb-display.log:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:00:26 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:01:26 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:02:27 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:12:30 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:13:35 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:14:39 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:24:40 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:25:41 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:26:42 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:36:47 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:37:48 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:39:54 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:40:54 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>2010-10-05 06:41:54 xstrdup: Cannot dup NULL string<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Xymon was restarted at 06:43.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Here is the hobbit.log from the time. It was too large to paste in the mail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://pastebin.com/JuU0BHje">http://pastebin.com/JuU0BHje</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We are running Xymon 4.2.3 on CentOS 5.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Johan Sjöberg<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>