[hobbit] hobbitd status-board not available

[David Gore]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:08:57PM -0600, David Gore wrote:
>   
>> What does this message mean.  Typically we get this when disabling 
>> multiple hosts.  Is it a host resource issue, something isn't replying 
>> quick enough?  We are on the snapshot from 03 October.  This has been 
>> happening over many weeks and different snapshots.  OS is solaris 9.
>>     
>
> It really points to a bug in the hobbitd daemon - it means that some
> task (usually bbdisplay) couldn't fetch the status information from
> the Hobbit server, which it uses to build the webpages.
>
> I'm somewhat alarmed if you have this problem with such a recent 
> snapshot. I know there was a bug in 4.1.1 (and earlier) that could 
> trigger this when disabling or renaming hosts, but that should not
> happen with the snapshot from 03 Oct.
>
>   
>> I am pretty sure these happen as people disable hosts and it fails 
>> although bb2.html shows them going to blue in the history, they will not 
>> show up on the enable/disable screen and usually show as failed when 
>> executing the disable.
>>     
>
> Interesting. I'll go over that particular piece of code again to
> see if I can come up with an explanation. If you have a way of
> triggering this, let me know - in that case, I'd like you to try out
> some things to make it sure it is fixed.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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>   
It is still happening with the latest 4.1.2 install.  A multi-host (~75+ 
hosts) disable worked, but then later on the enable it looks like 
hobbitd crashed:

hobbit at hobbit:/export/home/hobbit/server> find . -name core
./tmp/core
hobbit at hobbit:/export/home/hobbit/server> ls -al ./tmp/core
-rw-------   1 hobbit   other    13630500 Oct 11 16:46 ./tmp/core
hobbit at hobbit:/export/home/hobbit/server> file ./tmp/core
./tmp/core:     ELF 32-bit MSB core file SPARC Version 1, from 'hobbitd'
hobbit at hobbit:/export/home/hobbit/server> gdb bin/hobbitd tmp/core
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.9"...
Core was generated by `hobbitd 
--pidfile=/export/home/hobbit/server/logs/hobbitd.pid --restart=/export'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libc.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libmp.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
Reading symbols from /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libc_psr.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-60/lib/libc_psr.so.1
#0  0xff19fff8 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0xff19fff8 in _libc_kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#1  0xff136cd8 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#2  0x00021080 in sigsegv_handler (signum=10) at sig.c:57
#3  <signal handler called>
(gdb)

Can you give me directions on how I can do a relatively clean install 
and still retain all my historical information?

~David