[hobbit] Hobbit server doesn't start on CentOS 5 with hobbit-4.2.0 installed

[Mike Arnold]

So, for the record, there is nothing wrong with the RPM?

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Sebastian wrote:
> I looked at that already and it seemed high.  Mine is also:
> kernel.shmmax = 4294967295
>
> I found the problem though:
> max number of segments = 4096
> segments allocated 4096
>
> Fixed with:
> sysctl -w kernel.shmmni=8192
> kernel.shmmni = 8192
>
> Thanks for making me look at ipcs again though.
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Sent: 30 November 2007 15:18
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit server doesn't start on CentOS 5 with
> hobbit-4.2.0 installed
>
>
> FTR my Hobbit server:
>
> -> sysctl -a|grep shmmax
> kernel.shmmax = 4294967295
>
>
> On 11/30/07, HAMPL Pavel <phampl at csob.cz  <mailto:phampl at csob.cz> > wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What about to increase shmmax in the system when it complains that cannot
> get allocated new 262kB?
> You can check what is your size: # sysctl -a|grep shmmax
> This cmd says you what is already used: # ipcs -m
>
> You can increase it in /etc/sysctl (just put there something big, it is
> just
> a restriction, kernel.shmmax = XXXX)  and then apply it by : # sysctl -p
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pavel Hampl
>
>
>   _____
>
> From: Sebastian [mailto:spa at syntec.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:47 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit server doesn't start on CentOS 5 with
> hobbit-4.2.0 installed
>
>
>
> I uninstalled hobbit-4.2.0-7.el5.re.i386.rpm and compiled hobbit-4.2.0
> from
> source with the allinone.patch and get exactly the same error.
>
> It might be worth noting that this was originally a minimum CentOS 5
> install
> - I had to install gcc-c++ (and rrd-devel and pcre-devel) to compile
> hobbit,
> and I previously had to install gcc for compiling some other software -
> all
> from yum.
>
> The server has 2 GB of RAM but is running several other services.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Sent: 29 November 2007 18:44
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit server doesn't start on CentOS 5 with
> hobbit-4.2.0-7.el5.re.i386.rpm installed
>
>
> Just compile it from source.  If you don't know how to do that I can give
> you instructions command by command, just ask.  I use CentOS5 on my boxes
> but I've never bothered with the RPM.
>
>
> On 11/29/07, Sebastian <spa at syntec.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I installed an RPM of hobbit-4.2.0 called hobbit-4.2.0-7.el5.re.i386.rpm,
> which I probably got from here:
>
> <http://rpm.razorsedge.org/centos-5/RE/repodata/repoview/hobbit-4-4.2.0-7.el
> 5.re.html>
> http://rpm.razorsedge.org/centos-5/RE/repodata/repoview/hobbit-4-4.2.0-7.el5
> .re.html
> It includes the All-in-one patch.  So I configured the cfg files and
> started
> hobbit, but I get this in hobbitlaunch.log:
>
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 hobbitlaunch starting
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Loading tasklist configuration from
> /usr/libexec/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Loading hostnames
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Loading saved state
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Cannot access checkpoint file
> /usr/libexec/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk for restore
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Setting up signal handlers
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Setting up hobbitd channels
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Could not get shm of size 262144: No space left on
> device
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Cannot setup status channel
> 2007-11-29 17:33:47 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1
>
> This is the first time I've started it, so I presume that this is normal:
> "Cannot access checkpoint file /usr/libexec/hobbit/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk
> for restore".  The problem looks like this:  "Could not get shm of size
> 262144: No space left on device".  I see that there are two similar issues
> listed on  <http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html>
> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html that relate to FreeBSD,
> but
> none of the sysctl keys listed are in this version of Linux:
>
> # cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.centos.plus (
> <mailto:mockbuild at builder6.centos.org> mockbuild at builder6.centos.org )
> (gcc
> version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)) #1 SMP Thu Oct 25 06:49:40 EDT
> 2007
>
> Google returns 1 result for "Could not get shm of size" "No space left on
> device" and that was the Known Issues page I've already checked.  Any
> ideas?
>
> Also, I noticed that the hobbitd.pid file did not get deleted when hobbitd
> terminated.  It seems like it should have been.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Sebastian
>