Hi Henrik,

A problem with hostdata that was raised some little while ago doesn't seem to be resolved or listed as outstanding.

When running the server on an AIX 5.2 system with the hostdata task enabled, client data is not written to $BBVAR/hostdata and the hostdata.log contains the following :-

2006-08-09 09:59:50 Our child has failed and will not talk to us: Channel clichg, PID 17648 2006-08-09 10:06:29 Setting up clichg channel (id=8) 2006-08-09 10:06:29 calling ftok('/usr/local/hobbit/server',8) 2006-08-09 10:06:29 ftok() returns: 0x805B000 2006-08-09 10:06:29 shmget() returns: 0x46000E 2006-08-09 10:06:29 Setting up clichg channel (id=8) 2006-08-09 10:06:29 calling ftok('/usr/local/hobbit/server',8) 2006-08-09 10:06:29 ftok() returns: 0x805B000 2006-08-09 10:06:29 shmget() returns: 0x46000E 2006-08-09 10:06:37 Semaphore wait aborted: Interrupted system call 2006-08-09 10:06:37 Semaphore wait aborted: Interrupted system call 2006-08-09 10:06:52 Setting up clichg channel (id=8) 2006-08-09 10:06:52 calling ftok('/usr/local/hobbit/server',8) 2006-08-09 10:06:52 ftok() returns: 0x805B000 2006-08-09 10:06:52 shmget() returns: 0x300010 2006-08-09 10:06:52 Setting up clichg channel (id=8) 2006-08-09 10:06:52 calling ftok('/usr/local/hobbit/server',8) 2006-08-09 10:06:52 ftok() returns: 0x805B000 2006-08-09 10:06:52 shmget() returns: 0x300010 2006-08-09 10:11:48 Our child has failed and will not talk to us: Channel clichg, PID 38436

Looking forward to the 4.2 release - great work.

Regards,

Chris

-----Original Message----- From: henrik at hswn.dk [SMTP:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Note: Hobbit 4.2 release planned for Thursday Aug. 10.

Unless some major showstopper arrives within 24 hours, the 4.2 release will be available Thursday morning around 8 AM UTC.

In other words, this is your last chance to report bugs that must be fixed before the final release.

The "ps" handling bugs should all be fixed now in the latest snapshot and all-in-one patch (dated 2006-08-08 21:13 UTC).

A list of the bugs that have been fixed during the RC testing can be found at the beta-patches page, http://www.hswn.dk/hobbitsw/betapatches/ I would like to express my sincere admiration and thanks to the people who have taken the trouble of testing Hobbit for this release; your input and help in troubleshooting the problems has really made this release a lot better than it was 4 weeks ago.

Thanks, Henrik

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