[collectd] Invalid value for config option `Mode': `local'

[Eric Rath]

Octo,

Thanks, that was the problem.  I ran "make clean", then built again,  
and it works fine; the rrd files are being written and updated.   
Thanks for the tip, and thanks for collectd!

Eric

On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Florian Forster wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:20:14PM -0700, Eric Rath wrote:
>> I compiled and installed rrdtool-1.2.13 in /opt/rrdtool-1.2.13, and
>> then compiled and installed collectd in /opt/collectd-3.9.3.  When I
>> try to run collectd in "local" mode, it fails with the message
>> "Invalid value for config option `Mode': `local'".  I can, however,
>> run collectd in "log" mode; files are written in the data dir.
>
> that does sound as if `librrd' wasn't found/used. Did you configure
> collectd before and forget to do a `make clean' before building it,  
> the
> second time *with* linking to librrd? I've had problems like this
> several times..
>
> If that doesn't solve your problem, could provide the output of both,
> `./configure' and `make all', as well as the files `src/config.h' and
> `config.log'? Preferably tar'ed and zip'ed. If you can't upload  
> them to
> anywhere please send that to me directly, the list will most likely  
> drop
> it due to it's size.
>
> Regards,
> -octo
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