[hobbit] Cookie 35172 not found, dropping ack

Alan Sparks asparks at doublesparks.net
Tue Oct 21 05:44:48 CEST 2008


I think I have a little more context on what is happening with these
sporadic 'hobbitd' yellow statuses... but I'm not sure why.

I believe it is happening in my environment on short-lived alerts, and
the alerts clear at about the same time as someone acknowledges the
alert.  It appears that the cookies /are/ valid (or at least were, a few
minutes ago) -- but as soon as the alert clears, the cookie is
considered invalid and a mistimed (by a minute or a few seconds) will
trip the 'cookie' message.

I though I remembered reading on the list that cookies are supposed to
be remembered for 24 hours... but it appears that the used cookie is
forgotten almost immediately.  Is this a bug, or intentional?  Could
this be issues with time values in 64 bits?

Any advice appreciated.
-Alan

Alan Sparks wrote:
> Hobbit 4.2.0+allinone, CentOS 4.6 on x86_64...
>
> I have users reporting that randomly, the hobbitd status on our server
> is going yellow with the 'dropping ack' message.  A user just reported
> to me that this happened about one hour after he had acknowledged a
> yellow alert status.
>
> Anyone have any experience troubleshooting where these come from?  I
> suspect it may be another 64-bit issue, but am not yet sure.  Is the
> cookies for alerts logged or recorded anywhere?  Thanks for any advice.
> -Alan
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