defunct process / more than one nagios "root" process...

[Matthias Eble]

hi list,

> 
> I am facing problems for a few days with my Nagios server (2.0b4).
> I often have more than one nagios "root" process (launched by the root 
> process), and sometimes have a "defunct" nagios process.  
> 
> It is really anoying, as it can leads to Nagios not working any more, or, at 
> best, only doing half of the checks it should perform,... 
> Often, it also stops recording the results of the checks, or "forget" latest 
> informations after a restart, rolling back to the status data of hours ago.
> 
> I don't remember doing any big change lately, so I can't find why I am facing 
> all those problems right now... 
> 
> Does any of you know what can cause those defunct processes, or the multiple 
> nagios "root" processes?  Or best do you know how I could avoid it :)
> 

we are ocassionaly experiencing the some of your problems, too. I have 
thought, that this was a special issue in our Environment.

I am about to update to 2.0 stable because of the changelog entry
	Fix for segfault in timed event queue

I don't know what this fix does, but I think, it sounds related.

Anyone experiencing similar behavior?

matthias





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