[Xymon] semop failed, Invalid argument - Ubuntu

Thu Sep 17 09:55:03 CEST 2020

Hi

Sorry for resurrecting this but I get this periodically too and it's really annoying 😊

2020-09-17 01:45:23.945832 semop failed, Invalid argument

2020-09-17 01:45:23.945839 Dropping message due to semaphore error

One particular server just started doing this about 10 days having not done it for months.

It's Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 4.4.0-189-generic, x64. I have other Ubuntu 16.04 servers where it does not happen or at least, has not happened recently.

I turned on debug logging but I'm not too familiar with the server code so it doesn't really say much to me. Here are the additional debug entries:

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945758 Beginning conn_t cleanup

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945762 conn_t cleanup complete

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945783 -> do_message/1 (362 bytes): status+60m awdhrprtldb5.sessions clear Thu Sep 17 01:45:23 MDT 2020

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945790 -> update_statistics

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945793 <- update_statistics

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945797 -> get_hts

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945809 <- get_hts

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945813 ->handle_status

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945818 posting to status channel

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945823 -> posttochannel

2020-09-17 01:45:23.945832 semop failed, Invalid argument

2020-09-17 01:45:23.945839 Dropping message due to semaphore error

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945844 <-handle_status

18723 2020-09-17 01:45:23.945864 <- do_message/1

Xymond eventually falls over and needs restarting.

Can anyone help me with this - I can't be the only one with it!

Zak Beck

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On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 17:03 +0000, Rothlisberger, John R. via Xymon wrote:

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> Does anyone have any helpful ideas?

>

...

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> 2019-11-01 11:45:07.083973 semop failed, Invalid argument

> 2019-11-01 11:45:07.083982 Dropping message due to semaphore error

>

Not really I'm afraid.

The actual error is the invalid argument bit. It refers to a call to 'semop'. A

very quick look at the xymond code seems to indicate that it would be the

semaphore id that it is objecting to - basically it doesn't exist or the id is

less than zero.

How that came about though, I have no idea. It may be that the code is being

called when it shouldn't be - perhaps a lack of argument checking. It would

require much further checking of the code to see what is happening. Maybe

running xymond is debug mode will give more information.

John.

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