[hobbit] Status Unavailable

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 07:04:02AM +0000, Stefan Loos wrote:
> I think you see the same problem that I reported to Hendrid in May 
> (bbdisplay problems after adding some hosts).
> The only difference is that my hobbit server runs normal as long as no 
> other hosts are added to bb-hosts.
> I wanted to find out if its a OS problem (we use RedHat Enterprise 3) and 
> installed hobbit on a SuSE system. It shows the same problems....

Well, I've found *one* bug that might explain this - but I do not yet
know if it's the one that bites Vernon.

It's triggered by an invalid status message that doesn't include any
column-name. 

Stefan - you might want to try out the current snapshot available
at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/hobbit-snapshot.tar.gz

You build it the normal way (configure; make) - but instead of
running "make install" just copy the hobbitd/hobbitd binary to
your ~hobbit/server/bin/

After restarting Hobbit you should see some "Bogus status message"
entries in the hobbitd.log file if this problem occurs, but it 
should no longer crash.


Regards,
Henrik