Re: xymon - hobbitd_alert Program crashed Fatal signal caught!

[Bill Wagner <william.wagner (at) ipacc.com>]

I fixed this by doing:

./bb 127.0.0.1 "drop <xymon server> hobbitd_alert"

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: xymon - hobbitd_alert Program crashed Fatal signal caught!
From: Bill Wagner <william.wagner (at) ipacc.com>
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Date: 8/18/2009 10:27 AM
> I have xymon 4.2.3 server running on solaris 10.  This is  a new xymon 
> install and I have been setting up the initial alerts and changing 
> hobbit-clients.cfg and hobbit-alerts.cfg.  Alerts are generally 
> working as I intended.  However, at some point, I also began getting 
> the following alert:
>
> Hobbit [398021] xymon:hobbitd_alert stopped reporting (PURPLE)
>
> red - Program crashed
>
> Fatal signal caught!
>
>
> The hobbitd_alert process continues to run (see below) and alerts 
> continue to be generated.  I have backed out almost all my changes to 
> hobbit-alerts.cfg so it is "bare bones".  The crashes continue.  Any 
> suggestions on how to troubleshoot this?  I would enable debugging per 
> the hobbitd_alert MAN page if I could determine how to do that.
>
> thanks in advance,
> Bill
>
>
> $ ptree 29939
> 29931 /export/home/xymon/server/bin/hobbitlaunch 
> --config=/export/home/xymon/server/e
>  29939 hobbitd_channel --channel=page --log=/var/log/xymon/page.log 
> hobbitd_alert --ch
>    29943 hobbitd_alert 
> --checkpoint-file=/export/home/xymon/server/tmp/alert.chk --check
> $