[hobbit] still crashing

[Rob Munsch]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:00:47PM -0500, Rob Munsch wrote:
>> I still have a constantly red-then-purple hobbitd_client on my hobbit 
>> server.
>>
>> It's gotten to the point where i have a cron job dropping the test 
>> continuously.  I would appreciate any insight as to why this started 
>> happening and what is causing it.
>>
>> Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'.
>> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
>> #0  0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> 
> Unfortunately this doesn't give a clue about what actually happened,
> except that it jumped to some wild address and crashed.

Figures.  Okay, i'm in the middle of a server deployment at the moment, 
but i will follow through with this early next week and see what I can 
dig up for you.  Thanks for the response!

> 
> Could you add this line to hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c 
>    dbgprintf("Client report from host %s\n", (hostname ? hostname : "<unknown>"));
> around line 1754, just after the
>     enum ostype_t os;
>     namelist_t *hinfo = NULL;
> lines. Then run "make" to rebuild hobbitd_client, copy the
> hobbitd/hobbitd_client binary into ~hobbit/server/bin/ and edit
> hobbitlaunch.cfg to include a "--debug" on the hobbitd_client command
> (AFTER "hobbitd_client", ie at the end of the line).
> 
> hobbitd_client should restart automatically, and will be logging quite a
> bit of data to the clientdata.log file, including the hosts that send it
> data. This should let you figure out which host is sending the data that
> triggers the crash, by comparing the time of the crash with the
> timestamps in the logfile, or at least narrow it down.
> 
> Once you know which host it is, it would be interesting to see the
> message this host sends. You can grab it from the "client data" link
> for this host on the Hobbit web display. I'm obviously interested in
> this message (please save it to a file instead of pasting it into an
> e-mail), and also in the bb-hosts entry for the host, and any setup in
> hobbit-clients.cfg.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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