[hobbit] No bbdisplay

Steve Steve.DiSorbo at yale.edu
Mon Jul 16 16:58:37 CEST 2007


Problem solved ... You don't want to know ... yes you do, I would.

When I installed I entered the wrong IP address for the server.  I was 
not thorough when correcting my mistake and only changed the IP in the 
bb-host file, I forgot all bout the hobbitserver.cfg file.

Sorry wild goose chase.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:54:31AM -0400, Steve wrote:
>   
>> Here is trhe data.
>>
>> hobbit at balboa [/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin]
>> $ cat /usr/local/hobbit/server/www/bb.html                                        
>>     
>
> OK, this is a complete webpage, it just doesn't have any hosts 
> on it. Which is consistent with what you'd get when bbgen cannot
> query the Hobbit server for the current status.
>
>   
>> hobbit at balboa [/usr/local/hobbit/server/bin]
>> $ ./bbcmd bbgen
>>
>> 2007-07-16 07:51:35 Using default environment file /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>> 2007-07-16 07:52:22 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
>> 2007-07-16 07:52:22 hobbitd status-board not available
>>     
>
> OK, try running it with the "--debug" option added. It dumps
> a lot of output, but you should find something like this:
>
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 load_state()
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 Transport setup is:
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 bbdportnumber = 1984
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 bbdispproxyhost = NONE
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 bbdispproxyport = 0
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 Recipient listed as '127.0.0.1'
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 Standard BB protocol on port 1984
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 Will connect to address 127.0.0.1 port 1984
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 Connect status is 0
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 Sent 135 bytes
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 Read 2248 bytes
> 2007-07-16 16:25:34 Closing connection
>
> The "recipient" setting is taken from the BBDISP setting in
> hobbitserver.cfg - this must be the correct IP of your Hobbit server.
>
> Is there any indication that the "hobbitd" process has crashed? It
> will restart automatically, but do check for core-files in
> ~hobbit/data/tmp/, or the process creation timestamp of the "hobbitd"
> proces. And the hobbitlaunch.log file will also tell if it has restarted
> hobbit.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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Steve DiSorbo
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