[hobbit] Task hobbitd terminated, status 1

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:33:37AM -0400, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:
> 2005-10-18 08:24:10 Setting up hobbitd channels
> 2005-10-18 08:24:10 Could not get shm of size 262144: Invalid argument
> 2005-10-18 08:24:10 Cannot setup status channel

It complains that it cannot setup the shared memory (shm) segments
needed for communicating with the hobbitd_* modules.

First, login as the hobbit user and run "ipcs -m" to see if any 
shared-memory segments exist for this user. When hobbitd is 
stopped there should not be any. If you see something like this:

hobbit at osiris:~$ ipcs -m

------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key        shmid      owner      perms      bytes      nattch     status
0x020289c7 32769      hobbit    600        262144     2
0x030289c7 65538      hobbit    600        262144     2
0x040289c7 98307      hobbit    600        262144     2
0x050289c7 131076     hobbit    600        262144     1
0x060289c7 163845     hobbit    600        32768      1
0x070289c7 196614     hobbit    600        524288     2

and there is no hobbitd running, then the normal cleanup 
didn't happen when hobbitd last stopped. You can use "ipcrm -m <shmid>"
to remove them manually.


If that is not the problem (ie. there are no shared memory segments),
then the problem appears to be a ressource limit so hobbit isn't 
allowed to create a shared memory segment of size 256 KB. You'll have
to check your OS documentation on where to configure these limits.
Look for "IPC tuning" or "SYSV IPC parameters".


Regards,
Henrik