[collectd] Bugs in V4.0.0-rc7

[Richard Shade]

Hi,

On 5/7/07, Florian Forster <octo at verplant.org> wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> Florian octo Forster
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Sorry I was using rc7. The types.db is present in rc8




-- 
Thanks,

Richard Shade
RightScale
http://www.rightscale.com/
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