[hobbit] blank displays

[White, Bruce]

Larry, 
 
You might have an issue with a corrupted hobbitd.chk file.   This is
based on the error message "Bad file descriptor".  This file is used by
hobbitd to store events it needs to process for the enable/disable
process.   You can find the file at <install directory>/server/tmp.  You
might take a look at that file and see if it can not be accessed by
other utilities.   This would provide more of an indication that the
trouble is tied to that file.
 
If you shutdown the hobbit server process, you can remove this file and
when you start it again, hobbitd will create a new file.  Be aware that
this would cause you to lose any pre-scheduled enable/disable actions.
If you need new ones, you would have to re-enter them.  I could be all
wet, but based on the information you provided, that is where I would
start.
 
    ......Bruce
 


 
 Bruce White
 Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/
 
 
 
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From: Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 10:53 AM
To: hobbit
Subject: [hobbit] blank displays


I'm seeing some odd behavior on hobbit, (4.2.0). About once a week all
the displays go blank, they don't show any of the hosts. At the same
time hobbitdboard becomes empty, or nearly so. The hobbitd log shows:

2010-04-18 18:00:00 Ran scheduled task 8 from x.x.x.x: disable lnx1.*
240 
Disabled by: auser @ y.y.y.y
Reason: yada yada yada

2010-04-18 18:00:00 Fatal error in select: Bad file descriptor
2010-04-18 18:00:03 Setup complete
2010-04-18 18:00:13 Setup complete
2010-04-18 18:01:14 Setup complete
2010-04-18 18:11:17 Setup complete
2010-04-18 18:12:16 Setup complete
2010-04-18 18:13:17 Setup complete
2010-04-18 18:23:20 Setup complete
2010-04-18 18:24:22 Setup complete
2010-04-18 18:25:24 Setup complete
2010-04-18 18:32:39 Setup complete

Where the multiple "Setup completes" are the result of hobbitd crashing
and automatically restarting. Stopping hobbit completely and then
restarting appears to cure the problem. It does appear to be related to
using the scheduled disable function of Hobbit. 

Any ideas about what could be going on? 

Thanks,
Larry Barber

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