Re: [Devmon] Devmon hangs - tests turn purple

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 09:58:35 Thomas Kähn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running devmon v0.3.0 but from time to time devmon seems
> to hang. The processes are running, but no data is sent to the Hobbit
> server. As a consequence all tests turn purple.
>
> Version 0.3.0 is supposed to fix an issue with the same effect.

Version 0.3.0 fixes a case where I think devmon was ending up in a loop if it 
could not connect to the Hobbit server (e.g. Hobbit was running when devmon 
started, but was stopped and was unavailable when devmon tried to query the 
Hobbit server).

That case I could easily reproduce, so it is definitely fixed, and with the 
fix I could no longer reproduce it.

> However
> there seems to be another similar problem.
>
> Any ideas how to solve this? 

No. I do experience this about once a month, and another user in my company 
also experiences it about once a month or so.

> Please tell me if you need more
> information.

If we can isolate what the cause is, or reproduce it, it is likely easy to 
fix.

Unfortunately my home setup has power interruptions too often to hit this, and 
I don't currently have another environment to test on. However, I will try and 
set up a test environment at work, and see if I can reproduce it.

Otherwise, people who do experience it more often can try and reproduce it by 
running Devmon in debug mode, however you will need to make a change to devmon 
so that it still sends messages to Hobbit in debug mode. I will try and supply 
a patch to that effect this week.

Regards,
Buchan