Peculiar Hobbit problem

[Rich Smrcina]

I checked the Hobbit display this morning and noticed that it had not 
been updated since 2:22AM.  When I checked the hypervisor (IBMs z/VM), I 
noticed that the Hobbit virtual machine appears to be in a loop.  It was 
using up alot of CPU time.

I could not log on to Hobbit via ssh or the console, so I had to reboot 
it.  When I checked the logs after it came up, I saw this in bb-display.log:

2006-09-01 02:22:59 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
2006-09-01 02:22:59 hobbitd status-board not available
2006-09-01 02:24:08 WARNING: Runtime 119 longer than BBSLEEP (60)
2006-09-01 02:24:57 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout

I scanned the filesystem for core files, but found only 
/proc/sys/net/core, /dev/core and one in the kernel modules tree.

Any thoughts on how to further debug this?
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Rich Smrcina
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