[hobbit] funny errors in the logs and weird random http monitoring failures

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:56:56PM -0400, Paul Bliss wrote:
> At risk of covering an already well worn topic (I did check 
> the archives first, I swear) I'm getting two strange behaviors 
> that may be related.
> 
> I've inherited a Hobbit server that was working fine until the 
> unit was reset (rudely), and since then it's been working but 
> has been a little funky.

What version of Hobbit is this ? If you don't known, running
"~hobbit/server/bin/bbgen --version" should tell you.

> In my bb-display.log and bb-network I see:
> 2005-10-11 16:10:39 Could not connect to bbd at 127.0.0.1:1984 - Connection refused
> 2005-10-11 16:10:39 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed
> 2005-10-11 16:10:39 hobbitd status-board not available

Could you check the "hobbitlaunch.log" file in the same directory
if there's any mention of the "hobbitd" task terminating with
a signal or a non-zero exit code ?

> Also, perhaps related, I have a few servers in my bb-hosts file 
> that are configured to check http which go into alarm for periods 
> for no apparent reason.

Hmm - I don't see any relation in this to the other problem you have,
but let's handle one problem at a time :-)


Regards,
Henrik