Re: [hobbit] Hosts have disappeared

[Henrik Stoerner <henrik (at) hswn.dk>]

OK, it's past midnight here and I need to get some sleep, but since
it seems that your setup triggers this easily I'll start with your
dump tomorrow and see what I can find.

If you could make the hobbitd executable available for download also,
that would be nice.

How many hosts do you have, approximately ?


Henrik

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:30:06PM -0600, Thiesfeld, Gordon wrote:
> I've restarted it again, and my hosts are back, but things still aren't
> right.  Certain checks are still showing purple on the main page and green
> when you drill down.  I have my bbdisplay set to rebuild every 20 seconds,
> but it is rebuilding approximately every 5 or 6 minutes. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gordon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thiesfeld, Gordon [mailto:GThiesfeld (at) webmd.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:21 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hosts have disappeared
> 
> Henrik,
> 
> I already killed everything to do with hobbit once, to see if it would bring
> stuff back.  It didn't.  I don't know if that lost the data you're looking
> for.  
> 
> I did a dump.  You can get it here:
> 
> http://gthiesfeld.homelinux.org/download/core.4198
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:38 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hosts have disappeared
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:34:50PM -0600, Thiesfeld, Gordon wrote:
> > All of my hosts have disappeared from my display. 
> > 
> > Did I corrupt my bb-hosts file somehow?
> 
> I dont think so. This happens if the Hobbit daemon stops answering
> requests - then bbgen thinks nothing has been logged at all, and
> displays an empty page. 
> 
> I haven't been able to trigger it myself, but maybe some playing
> around with renaming hosts will do it.
> 
> If it happens again, I would be very interested to get a core-dump of
> the hobbitd process. So could you please try killing hobbitd with a
> "kill -ABRT <hobbitd-PID>" ? That should cause it to core-dump.