Trouble Displaying Graphs: Location for Pango Libary?

[Tarot]

Hi, I am a new user to Cacti and have recently completed an install of Cacti version 1.1.38 on a CentOS 7 virtual machine (on a Windows 10 host using VMWare Workstation Pro). I am able to add devices using the Cacti web application and can see some of their basic statistic such as port numbers, VLAN assignments, and MAC/IP addresses when I select my devices under Create> New Graphs, but when I attempt to create a graph for any device Cacti does not create a graph and I receive the following error:

/bin/rrdtool: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_log_structured_standard

I have found another post in which the user had this error, at viewtopic.php?f=21&t=59352

In this post the fix for this error appears to be that the user needed to have the proper Pango library installed, but my question is where does this library need to be installed? I have extracted pango-1.42.4 to my ~ directory for root, should I move it to /lib and create a libpango-1.42.4 directory for it, or is there another location that it needs to exist?

Thank you for any help you can provide.

[netniV]

CentOS 7 requires you to update these things independantly. I had the same issue the other day.

Just make sure you've run all your updates, yum update -y (repeatedly!)

The problem is that the libpango libraries that get installed are outdated as the RRDTool package doesn't specify a minimum version for itself but relies on the dependancies of the direct packages it wants to do that, and so just installing RRDTool doesn't update them.

[Tarot]

I believe I have found a fix for the error I was receiving; https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57869 suggests that I needed to upgrade my glib to glib2, so I did by running the command
yum upgrade glib2

Now when I try to create graphs in Cacti I get the following error:

error: opening 'usr/share/cacti/rra/<device-name-here>_traffic_in_6.rrd': No such file or directory

After looking at the information at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250348 it appears that I at least am lacking some important files, as the user in that report shows a long listing of files in:

[thomas@srv1 ~]$ ls -l /var/lib/cacti/rra/ | tail
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 94816 2007-08-07 21:20 srv1_localhost_hdd_free_43.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 141640 2007-08-07 21:20 srv1_localhost_load_1min_39.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-07 21:20 srv1_localhost_proc_41.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-07 21:20 srv1_localhost_users_40.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_buffers_11.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_buffers_20.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_cache_21.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_free_22.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_swap_12.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_proc_13.rrd

Whereas my ls -l of the same directory returns no contents of interest (besides .htaccess).

After reading the above information, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to proceed to fix the error "opening 'usr/share/cacti/rra/<device-name-here>_traffic_in_6.rrd': No such file or directory", or how I should go about updating my cacti install so that the folders in var/lib/cacti are properly populated?

[Tarot]

CentOS 7 requires you to update these things independantly. I had the same issue the other day.

Just make sure you've run all your updates, yum update -y (repeatedly!)

The problem is that the libpango libraries that get installed are outdated as the RRDTool package doesn't specify a minimum version for itself but relies on the dependancies of the direct packages it wants to do that, and so just installing RRDTool doesn't update them.

Also thank you for the above information, I am running yum update -y now (repeatedly) to see how that remedies my situation.

[camerabob]

I believe I have found a fix for the error I was receiving; https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57869 suggests that I needed to upgrade my glib to glib2, so I did by running the command
yum upgrade glib2

Now when I try to create graphs in Cacti I get the following error:

error: opening 'usr/share/cacti/rra/<device-name-here>_traffic_in_6.rrd': No such file or directory

After looking at the information at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250348 it appears that I at least am lacking some important files, as the user in that report shows a long listing of files in:

[thomas@srv1 ~]$ ls -l /var/lib/cacti/rra/ | tail
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 94816 2007-08-07 21:20 srv1_localhost_hdd_free_43.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 141640 2007-08-07 21:20 srv1_localhost_load_1min_39.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-07 21:20 srv1_localhost_proc_41.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-07 21:20 srv1_localhost_users_40.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_buffers_11.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_buffers_20.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_cache_21.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_free_22.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_mem_swap_12.rrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 cacti root 47992 2007-08-01 02:00 srv1_proc_13.rrd

Whereas my ls -l of the same directory returns no contents of interest (besides .htaccess).

After reading the above information, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to proceed to fix the error "opening 'usr/share/cacti/rra/<device-name-here>_traffic_in_6.rrd': No such file or directory", or how I should go about updating my cacti install so that the folders in var/lib/cacti are properly populated?

Try
[thomas@srv1 ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/cacti/rra/*_6.rrd

Look for that single file as opposed to all of the other ones. If it exists, check file permissions. If not, check the directory permissions to see if the poller can create files in there under the current user.

[Tarot]

Try
[thomas@srv1 ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/cacti/rra/*_6.rrd

Look for that single file as opposed to all of the other ones. If it exists, check file permissions. If not, check the directory permissions to see if the poller can create files in there under the current user.

Running ls -l /usr/share/cacti/rra/*_6.rrd, as well as a more general find . | grep *.rrd
from the root of my file system (both as root) turns up no files.

I have checked my cron entry and permissions for the user that poller runs as and it looks like poller has the correct permissions. See my attached screenshots to if you want to confirm this fact

My big question is "How are .rrd files generated? Are these template files that I import, or are they generated on the fly by poller, or are they typically included as part of a standard Cacti install, or something else entirely?"

[netniV]

Is your poller set to run in a cron or crontab entry? Normally in /etc/cron.d/cacti and if it is, check that user has permissions to create rrd files.

[Tarot]

Is your poller set to run in a cron or crontab entry? Normally in /etc/cron.d/cacti

Yes, if you will check the screenshots above you will see my cron.d entry for poller.php used by the cacti user.

and if it is, check that user has permissions to create rrd files.

I believe that the user has permission to create rrd files. What can I show that would verify this?

For example, here are some permissions from my /usr/share/cacti folder

[cigamit]

What does your Cacti log say?

[Tarot]

What does your Cacti log say?

Alot, but most notably there appears to be a problem as poller reaches the 300 second mark. Here are some screenshots of the log

[Tarot]

Nothing in my cacti log seems to indicate what problem I am running into. The 300 second issue I mentioned earlier just seems to be a notification that a poller instance is hitting the end of its life cycle. I have gone ahead and tried running rrdtool by itself to create a graph, I am able to open and view that graph (on a different machine), and its specifications match the data that I have input for it.

Digging through the forums I came across this article from 200X: post-80739.html
which seems to address a similar issue to the one I have run into, namely:

error: opening 'usr/share/cacti/rra/<device-name-here>_traffic_in_6.rrd': No such file or directory


The file locations mentioned in that post are no longer relevant, and perhaps the same is true for the post, but does anyone who is Cacti savvy see any correlation between that earlier forum post (and its included fixes) and the problem I am reporting for my current(ish) version of Cacti? Or does anyone have a different idea of what may be going wrong with my Cacti's graphing?

[Pucho]

Have you checked Selinux? You can try disabling Selinux temporarily if you don't know much about it.

Thsi will tell you if it's enforcing or not

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getenforce 

this will set it to disable temporarily

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setenforce 0

Let the poller run and see how it goes.

Try

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su -l cacti -s /bin/bash

Then

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touch /usr/share/cacti/rra/something.something

[Tarot]

Ok, I have input the commands you suggested and pasted a snipping of my screen to the bottom of this post, now I am waiting to see what happens as poller runs. I will post a reply with the results tomorrow once poller has had some time to run.

Also, prior to inputting these commands and after fussing around with some of the settings in the Cacti (namely Configuration>Settings Tab:Poller - Set Poller Type to cmd.exe, Poller Interval to Every 10 Seconds, and Cron Interval to Every Minute (to match how it is set in my cron.d entry) I have been able to produce a few graphs. It just looks like poller needs to run for a while; I have also pasted a screen shot of a successful graphing and an unsuccessful graphing (same settings) below. For the graph that doesn't work is it possible that I simply don't have the right template imported for the data I am trying to graph?

[Tarot]

I have let Cacti run overnight and it has produced some interesting graphs. I'm not sure how much of this development can be attributed to modifying the Cacti settings for Poller Interval and Cron Interval, and how much can be attributed to disabling selinux (as advised by user Pucho; thanks again for the suggestion!) . Either way, I have pasted a few of my working graphs below along with one of the broken ones. The broken graph appears when I try to chart the processes on a local Linux device.

At the moment I am not sure why some of the graphs I am attempting to create function properly and others continue to give me an error message, but I will be looking for more information on how to use templates with Cacti. If anyone takes a look at the images below and has an idea of what issue I may be dealing with I would appreciate any advice.