Error: Could not read object configuration data!

Frank J. Gómez frank at crop-circle.net
Thu Jun 5 16:20:47 CEST 2008


I'm by no means an expert -- just taking shots in the dark here, but...

Can you run checks from the command line?  If so, it suggests a problem
specific to the CGI.  If not, it would seem the problem is with Nagios per
se.

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Chantal Rosmuller <chantal at antenna.nl>
wrote:

> Yes it is, but I changed the permissions already and they are ok now, at
> least
> I think they should be okay:
>
>
> servername:~# ls -la /etc/nagios2
> total 192
> drwxr-xr-x   4 nagios www-data  4096 2008-06-05 15:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x 125 root   root      8192 2008-06-05 11:02 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  1598 2008-05-13 13:18 apache2.conf
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios root     13261 2008-06-05 14:01 cgi.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  1830 2008-06-05 10:46 checkcommands.cfgd
> drwxr-xr-x   2 nagios www-data  4096 2008-06-05 11:05 conf.d
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  1926 2008-06-05 10:46 contactgroups.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  3945 2008-06-05 10:46 contacts.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  1662 2008-06-05 10:46 dependencies.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  2256 2008-06-05 10:46 escalations.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  4585 2008-06-05 15:00 hostgroups.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data 11072 2008-06-05 12:56 hosts.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data 13544 2008-06-05 10:46 minimal.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  6542 2008-06-05 13:06 misccommands.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data 21702 2008-06-05 12:35 nagios.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  4692 2008-06-05 10:46 nrpe.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data     0 2008-06-05 10:46 nrpe_local.cfg
> -rw-r-----   1 nagios www-data  3100 2008-06-05 10:46 resource.cfg
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  6363 2008-06-05 10:46 services.cfg
> drwxr-xr-x   2 nagios www-data  4096 2007-03-04 23:56 stylesheets
> -rw-r--r--   1 nagios www-data  1863 2008-06-05 10:46 timeperiods.cfg
>
>
> On Thursday 05 June 2008 16:03:36 Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> > Is it possible that the upgrader changed permissions/ownership of some
> > config file(s) in /etc/nagios/?
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Chantal Rosmuller <chantal at antenna.nl>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Thursday 05 June 2008 13:18:13 Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
> > > > Hi list,
> > > >
> > > > after upgrading from 1.4 to 2.6 on a debian system the webinterface
> is
> > >
> > > not
> > >
> > > > working anymore, if I click on a menu link I get:
> > > >
> > > > Error: Could not read object configuration data!
> > > >
> > > > the nagios documentation says:
> > > >
> > > >    1. Verify configuration options using the -v command-line option
> to
> > > > check for errors.
> > > >    2. Check the Nagios log file for messages relating to startup or
> > >
> > > status
> > >
> > > > data errors.
> > > >    3. Make sure you've compiled the main program and the CGIs to use
> > > > the same object data storage options (i.e. default text file or
> > >
> > > template-based
> > >
> > > > file).
> > > >
> > > > I tried 1 but no errors
> > > > same for option 2
> > > > 3, I didn't compile but I used aptitude, so I guess that cannot be
> the
> > > > problem?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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