bbdisplay problems after adding some new hosts

[Stefan Loos]

Hi,

yesterday I add some new hosts to my hobbit-server and short after that 
hobbit had some problems.
Here is what hobbitlauch.log says:

2005-05-11 09:11:18 Heartbeat lost for task hobbitd, bouncing it
2005-05-11 09:11:18 Task bbretest started with PID 4523
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Heartbeat lost for task hobbitd, killing it
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Task bbdisplay started with PID 4524
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Task hobbitd terminated by signal 9
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Task hobbitd started with PID 4525
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Loading hostnames
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Loading saved state
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Setting up signal handlers
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Setting up hobbitd channels
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Setting up logfiles
2005-05-11 09:11:28 Task bbhistory started with PID 4527
2005-05-11 09:11:28 Task bbenadis started with PID 4528
2005-05-11 09:11:28 Task bbpage started with PID 4530
2005-05-11 09:11:28 Task larrdstatus started with PID 4532
2005-05-11 09:11:28 Task larrddata started with PID 4534
2005-05-11 09:12:18 Task bbretest started with PID 4541
2005-05-11 09:12:23 Task bbdisplay started with PID 4542
2005-05-11 09:12:43 Heartbeat lost for task hobbitd, bouncing it
2005-05-11 09:12:48 Heartbeat lost for task hobbitd, killing it
2005-05-11 09:12:48 Task hobbitd terminated by signal 9
2005-05-11 09:12:48 Task bbdisplay terminated by signal 15

So I tried to find out which component causes the problem and disabled 
everything in hobbitlauch.cfg and reenabled one by one.
I found out that everytime I enabled bbdisplay those errors occour.
The bb-display.log looks like this:

2005-05-11 09:09:48 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
2005-05-11 09:09:48 hobbitd status-board not available
2005-05-11 09:09:53 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
2005-05-11 09:10:53 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout
2005-05-11 09:10:53 hobbitd status-board not available
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Could not connect to bbd at 10.207.193.41:1984 - Connection 
refused
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed
2005-05-11 09:11:23 hobbitd status-board not available
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Could not connect to bbd at 10.207.193.41:1984 - Connection 
refused
2005-05-11 09:11:23 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed

I also found some core files in ~server/tmp but I'm pretty shure they came 
from killing hobbit - nevertheless I've run the gdb util:

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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db 
library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

Core was generated by `hobbitd --debug --pidfile=/var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.pid 
--restart=/usr/local/hobb'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0  0x00df4cef in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00df4cef in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#1  0x00df64f5 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#2  0x08054126 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57
#3  <signal handler called>
#4  0x00e46cac in mempcpy () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#5  0x00e3a4d2 in _IO_default_xsputn_internal () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#6  0x00e13527 in vfprintf () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#7  0x00e2f3dc in vsprintf () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#8  0x00e1a03d in sprintf () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#9  0x0804d7a4 in do_message (msg=0x9e0b3f8, origin=0x80554bb "") at 
hobbitd.c:1903
#10 0x0804fcb5 in main (argc=8, argv=0xbfff9084) at hobbitd.c:2944
(gdb)

Now I try to find out which of the new hosts - and what test causes the 
problems...

Regards,

Stefan Loos