Re: [hobbit] Strange problem

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

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:18:34PM -0500, kevin grady wrote:
> Well that explains the display problem. Kick me for not checking the
> logs. So this is what I have in the hobbitlaunch.log:
> 
> 2005-02-17 16:16:43 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
> 2005-02-17 16:16:43 Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use)
> 2005-02-17 16:16:43 Task hobbitd terminated, status 1

Could be the same bug that's bitten quite a few people now: The
hostname used in hobbitserver.cfg for the BBSERVERHOSTNAME and
MACHINEDOTS settings is not listed in bb-hosts, causing hobbitd
to crash after 5 minutes.

In that case, you should have a line "hobbitd terminated with signal
6" just before those lines in the logfile.

Make sure the hostname in BBSERVERHOSTNAME is listed in bb-hosts.


> I checked the ~/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg and it has everything
> listed properly. This system does not have anything listening on port
> 1984. Any ideas? Shouldn't the binding IP address be what is specified
> in BBSERVERIP?

This error message is bogus, it happens because hobbitd attempts to
restart too quickly after it crashes.


Henrik