[hobbit] Note: Hobbit 4.2 release planned for Thursday Aug. 1 0.

[Morris, Chris (Shared Services)]

Hi Henrik,

A problem with hostdata that was raised some little while ago doesn't seem
to be resolved or listed as outstanding.

When running the server on an AIX 5.2 system with the hostdata task enabled,
client data is not written to $BBVAR/hostdata and the hostdata.log contains
the following :-

2006-08-09 09:59:50 Our child has failed and will not talk to us: Channel
clichg, PID 17648
2006-08-09 10:06:29 Setting up clichg channel (id=8)
2006-08-09 10:06:29 calling ftok('/usr/local/hobbit/server',8)
2006-08-09 10:06:29 ftok() returns: 0x805B000
2006-08-09 10:06:29 shmget() returns: 0x46000E
2006-08-09 10:06:29 Setting up clichg channel (id=8)
2006-08-09 10:06:29 calling ftok('/usr/local/hobbit/server',8)
2006-08-09 10:06:29 ftok() returns: 0x805B000
2006-08-09 10:06:29 shmget() returns: 0x46000E
2006-08-09 10:06:37 Semaphore wait aborted: Interrupted system call
2006-08-09 10:06:37 Semaphore wait aborted: Interrupted system call
2006-08-09 10:06:52 Setting up clichg channel (id=8)
2006-08-09 10:06:52 calling ftok('/usr/local/hobbit/server',8)
2006-08-09 10:06:52 ftok() returns: 0x805B000
2006-08-09 10:06:52 shmget() returns: 0x300010
2006-08-09 10:06:52 Setting up clichg channel (id=8)
2006-08-09 10:06:52 calling ftok('/usr/local/hobbit/server',8)
2006-08-09 10:06:52 ftok() returns: 0x805B000
2006-08-09 10:06:52 shmget() returns: 0x300010
2006-08-09 10:11:48 Our child has failed and will not talk to us: Channel
clichg, PID 38436


Looking forward to the 4.2 release - great work.


Regards,

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	henrik at hswn.dk [SMTP:henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:22 PM
> To:	hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject:	[hobbit] Note: Hobbit 4.2 release planned for Thursday Aug.
> 10.
> 
> Unless some major showstopper arrives within 24 hours, the 4.2 release
> will be available Thursday morning around 8 AM UTC.
> 
> In other words, this is your last chance to report bugs that must be
> fixed before the final release.
> 
> The "ps" handling bugs should all be fixed now in the latest snapshot
> and all-in-one patch (dated 2006-08-08 21:13 UTC).
> 
> A list of the bugs that have been fixed during the RC testing can be
> found at the beta-patches page, http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/betapatches/
> I would like to express my sincere admiration and thanks to the people
> who have taken the trouble of testing Hobbit for this release; your
> input and help in troubleshooting the problems has really made this
> release a lot better than it was 4 weeks ago.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Henrik
> 
> 
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