[hobbit] moving hobbit from Ubuntu to Debian

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Thu Jun 1 00:13:57 CEST 2006


One more thing before I go to sleep :-)

Check your hobbitserver.cfg - if you have BBDISP set the same as 
BBSERVERIP. That *is* the default, but you might have changed it.
It should be
   BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP"
in hobbitserver.cfg.


Regards,
Henrik

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:04:55AM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> Login as the hobbit user, then run
>    ./server/bin/bbcmd bbgen --debug | less
> A bit into that log is where bbgen tries to fetch the current status
> from the Hobbit daemon. It looks like this:
> 
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 load_state()
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 Transport setup is:
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 bbdportnumber = 1984
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 bbdispproxyhost = NONE
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 bbdispproxyport = 0
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 Recipient listed as '127.0.0.1'
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 Standard BB protocol on port 1984
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 Will connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 1984
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 Connect status is 0
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 Sent 118 bytes
> 2006-06-01 00:02:24 Read 3364 bytes
> 
> Does it report the right IP-address as the 'Recipient' ?
> 
> Henrik
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:00:19PM -0700, Dan Simoes wrote:
> > Telnet to localhost as well as 127.0.0.1 work, yes.
> > The hobbitdboard returns a lot of data.
> > 
> > I've literally been looking at this for hours, I don't know what else is
> > wrong.
> > I even did a completely fresh install, dropped in my bb-hosts, same results.
> > I know bb-hosts is OK since it's working elsewhere (I did change the bbd
> > line of course).
> > 
> > On 5/31/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> > >
> > >Can you telnet to 127.0.0.1 port 1984 ? If that times out, then you have
> > >a seriously heavy firewall setup. Something like
> > >   iptables -I INPUT 1 -i lo -j ACCEPT
> > >   iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -i lo -j ACCEPT
> > >should cancel out any paranoid firewall setups locally on the box, for
> > >the loopback-interface.
> > >
> > >Can you do a "~hobbit/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 hobbitdboard" and get any
> > >data back ?
> > >
> > >If you're running all of the network tests locally, I think you can
> > >get away with setting
> > >   BBSERVERIP="127.0.0.1"
> > >in your hobbitserver.cfg, and let all of the communications happen on
> > >the loopback-interface. Of course, for clients to work you'll need to
> > >get port 1984 opened up for access from the clients. But loopback should
> > >be ok for just getting the Hobbit server up and running.
> > >
> > >
> > >Henrik
> > >
> > >
> > >On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:48:33PM -0700, Dan Simoes wrote:
> > >> I thought of that, eventually, and corrected the error.  Same problem.
> > >> localhost is responding on 1984, but the site's firewall is blocking
> > >1984.
> > >> I don't have any clients connecting at the moment, so I don't imagine
> > >this
> > >> is a problem, but thought I would mention it.
> > >>
> > >> On 5/31/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >Check the IP-adresses for the Hobbit server in the hobbitserver.cfg
> > >> >file. From your logs, it seems that the query to fetch the current
> > >total
> > >> >status from the Hobbit daemon goes to the wrong server (the old IP,
> > >> >probably), so there is no response and therefore the webpages dont get
> > >> >any hosts listed.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >Henrik
> > >> >
> > >> >On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:41:25PM -0700, Dan Simoes wrote:
> > >> >> I got an account on a new virtual host (debian 3.1 on virtuozzo), and
> > >> >> dropped in a tar of my hobbit dir.
> > >> >> I figured I could just edit bb-hosts and be up and running in
> > >minutes.
> > >> >> Hours later, I'm still not up.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> OK, so I was missing fping, and rrdtool.  Hobbit did not like the
> > >older
> > >> >> rrdtool 1.X under debian stable, so I switch to testing, upgraded,
> > >and
> > >> >> recompiled and reinstalled hobbit.
> > >> >> It's still not working, even with a simplified bb-hosts.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> hobbit runs, but the webpage output is devoid of any host data.
> > >> >> I can't figure out what else could be wrong, this should have been a
> > >> >very
> > >> >> simple port.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Logs show:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> bb--display:
> > >> >> 2006-05-31 17:30:22 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
> > >> >> 2006-05-31 17:30:22 hobbitd status-board not available
> > >> >> 2006-05-31 17:30:22 WARNING: Runtime 92 longer than BBSLEEP (60)
> > >> >> 2006-05-31 17:31:09 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
> > >> >>
> > >> >> bb-network:
> > >> >> 2006-05-31 17:30:27 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
> > >> >> 2006-05-31 17:30:27 WARNING: Runtime 140 longer than time limit (120)
> > >> >> 2006-05-31 17:31:14 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> hobbitclient.log:
> > >> >> 2006-05-31 17:32:47 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
> > >> >> error parsing /proc/net/snmp: Success
> > >> >> 2006-05-31 17:34:47 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
> > >> >> error parsing /proc/net/snmp: Success
> > >> >
> > >> >--
> > >> >Henrik Storner
> > >> >
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> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >
> > >--
> > >Henrik Storner
> > >
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> > >
> 
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> Henrik Storner
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