[collectd] Bugs in V4.0.0-rc7

[Florian Forster]

Hi Richard,

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:28:14AM -0500, Richard Shade wrote:
> Guys, here are a few more.. Probably just release note addins..
> collectd: open (/mnt/collectd4/lib/collectd/types.db) failed: No such file or directory

how did you install collectd? Did you use
  $ make DESTDIR=... install
or something like that? I've just double-checked if `src/types.db' is
included in the latest tarball (rc8) and it is. Did you use that version
or the other version that was missing that file (I think that was rc7)?

> May  7 10:23:22 domU-12-31-35-00-30-41 collectd[17200]: email: No such group: `collectd'
> May  7 10:23:22 domU-12-31-35-00-30-41 collectd[17200]: unixsock plugin: No such group: `collectd'

This is simply a configuration issue: The plugins `email' and `unixsock'
create/open an UNIX-socket and try a `chgrp' on it. By default the group
they try to `chown' the file to is `collectd' which doesn't exist on
your system. You can either set the group so something useful (as far as
I know only Linux honors the group of an UNIX-socket, anyway) or savely
ignore this message ;)

Sebastian, wouldn't it be a more sensible default to only to a `chgrp'
when a group is configured?

> May  7 10:23:22 domU-12-31-35-00-30-41 collectd[17200]: read-function of plugin `apache' failed. Will syspend it for 10 second

I guess you don't have `libcurl' or `libcurl-dev' (or something like
that) installed. Look for a package of the library and recompile or
disable that plugin to make this message go away ;)

> Can I get the types.db out of and earlier package?

As mentioned above: It is in the current tarball and it _should_ be
installed in the same directory as the plugins. If you can find the file
in the source directory but it's not installed, could you please provide
the last few (20 or so) lines of an `make install'?

> Florian, sorry about hitting you twice with this.

No problem ;) I've changed more after the first RC than I initially
intended, but the migration-scripts and (right now the most work to be
done) collection.cgi need a lot more care than I expected. So I'm glad
that at least some bugs can be fixed in the meantime :)

Regards,
-octo
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Florian octo Forster
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