[hobbit] still crashing

Rob Munsch rmunsch at solutionsforprogress.com
Wed Feb 14 22:08:11 CET 2007


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.
> 
> 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

I tried doing this.  The make bombed terribly; pages and pages of 
errors.  It started like this:

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root at randomaccess ~/hobbit-4.2.0/hobbitd # make
cc  -c -o hobbitd_client.o hobbitd_client.c
hobbitd_client.c:26:22: error: libbbgen.h: No such file or directory
In file included from hobbitd_client.c:28:
client_config.h:23: error: expected ')' before '*' token
client_config.h:27: error: expected ')' before '*' token
client_config.h:33: error: expected ')' before '*' token
client_config.h:38: error: expected ')' before '*' token
client_config.h:40: error: expected ')' before '*' token
client_config.h:43: error: expected ')' before '*' token
client_config.h:47: error: expected ')' before '*' token
client_config.h:51: error: expected ')' before '*' token
client_config.h:55: error: expected ')' before '*' token
hobbitd_client.c:46: error: 'COL_CLEAR' undeclared here (not in a function)
hobbitd_client.c:132: error: expected ')' before '*' token
hobbitd_client.c:165: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' 
before 'namelist_t'
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I copied the line you gave me from this email, where specified, so i 
don't think it's that.

rob




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