hobbitd_client crashes on server

[Marijn Hofstra]

Hello,

I have checked the list and google for this problem, but after a few hours
of poking around I am left in the dark.

I am using hobbit 4.2.0 on an up-to-date Debian stable system. Quite a while
ago, the hobbitd_client started showing up red on the hobbit server page,
showing a "Program crashed, fatal signal caught" error. As per some
instructions I found I am hereby attaching a gdb trace of the problem
(hoping I did it the right way). Additionally, i see loads of errors like
"2009-08-30 08:48:02 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating" in
/var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log" on the server. Supposedly at five minute
intervals, but also some in between as I have been restarting stuff alot.

Also, around the same time the hobbitd_client started acting up, one of my
servers started going purple on all the local tests. It smells like the data
from this server is related to the crashing, but I have no idea how to
verify this. I tried wiping the hobbitd_client data as per one other case
somewhere on the list, so I now cannot see whether the issues started
simultaneously or not.

Any hints are greatly appreciated!

Best regards,

Marijn




smeagol:~/server$ gdb bin/hobbitd_client  tmp/core
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)

warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
(no debugging symbols found)
Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
[New process 10357]
#0  0xb7de6556 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7de6556 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0xb7de7d78 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x08060783 in ?? ()
#3  0x0806aac0 in ?? ()
#4  0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)