[hobbit] Purple results on server's tests

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Mon Jan 28 18:02:46 CET 2008


I think you both came to the problem at the same time...

BBSERVERHOSTNAME was set incorrectly.  I must have been completely high when
I set this because it makes NO sense what I put in there...

Thank you both very very much for getting back to me so quickly!  I greatly
appreciate the help!

On 1/28/08, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> Anything in the logs ? E.g. hobbitd.log or bb-display.log ought to have
> some entries if things aren't going the way they should.
>
>
> Is the main Hobbit webpage being updated ? Check the timestamp in the
> upper righthand corner.
>
>
> In hobbitlaunch.cfg you'll find a section like this:
>
>     [bbdisplay]
>         ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>         CMD bbgen $BBGENOPTS --report
>         LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-display.log
>
> Try running
>
>    bbcmd --env=/usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>    echo $MACHINE
>    echo $BBDISP
>
> (i.e. use the ENVFILE filename for the --env option). Does the
> MACHINE setting match your servers' hostname in bb-hosts?
> (It will show commas instead of dots, but that is OK).
> And BBDISP is correct ?
>
>
> Henrik
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:39:14AM -0500, Josh Luthman wrote:
> > I was thinking they were all related.  Should there be a ps running that
> > isn't that I can check for?  Or would the ps only start upon hobbitd
> telling
> > it to do its job?
> >
> > hobbitserver.cfg:
> > BBSERVERIP="74.x.x.x" #my public that is definitely correct, it's eth0
> > BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP" #you are correct about this
> >
> > It went purple when it was booted: Sun Jan 27 05:27:52 2008
> >
> > Really curious why this started happening when it was rebooted =/
> >
> > On 1/28/08, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:33:27AM -0500, Josh Luthman wrote:
> > > > I rebooted the hobbit server for power related reasons and since it
> came
> > > up
> > > > the following tests are purple on the Hobbit server:
> > > >
> > > > bbgen/bbtest/cpu/disk/files/hobbitd/memory/msgs/ports/procs
> > >
> > > It's all of the tests that it sends to itself. Check the BBDISP
> setting
> > > in hobbitserver.cfg (which is usually picked up from BBSERVERIP), it
> > > must be an IP assigned to your Hobbit server.
>
>
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>


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