cactid - Solaris 10 - Net-Snmp problem

[gordonj]

Hi,

Can anyone help with this problem I'm having getting cactid going on Solaris 10 on Sparc.

The brief outline is that when running cactid it gives this message "Illegal Instruction"

I have tried building cactid against both net-snmp-5.2.3 and 5.3.1 and get the same result. Both net-snmp and cactid have been compiled using the Sun 'CoolTools' gcc compiler.

The problem occurs when cactid calls 'init_snmp("cactid");' in snmp.c, so I think the problem may lie with net-snmp rather than cactid itself.

Here's a snip of the cactid output, with debugging turned on in snmp.conf

... Initialisation, db queries run sucessfully...
CACTID: CACTID: Version 0.8.6i starting
CACTID: MYSQL: Connecting to MySQL database 'cacti' on 'localhost'...
CACTID: MYSQL: Connected to MySQL database 'cacti' on 'localhost'...
CACTID: CACTID: Initializing Net-SNMP API
CACTID: DEBUG: SNMP Header Version is 5.2.3
CACTID: DEBUG: SNMP Library Version is 5.2.3
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 779:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/share/snmp/snmp.conf:53 examining: mibdirs /cacti/apps/net-snmp/share/snmp/mibs
trace: run_config_handler(): read_config.c, 482:
read_config: Found a parser. Calling it: mibdirs / /cacti/apps/net-snmp/share/snmp/mibs
trace: handle_mibdirs_conf(): mib.c, 2094:
read_config:initmib: using mibdirs: /cacti/apps/net-snmp/share/snmp/mibs

... mibs loaded...

... searches for a 'cactid.conf' which it fails to find...

read_config: /var/net-snmp/cactid.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /var/net-snmp/cactid.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: netsnmp_ds_set_boolean(): default_store.c, 205:
netsnmp_ds_set_boolean: Setting LIB:27 = 1/True
trace: snmp_call_callbacks(): callback.c, 205:
callback: START calling callbacks for maj=0 min=0
trace: snmp_call_callbacks(): callback.c, 219:
callback: calling a callback for maj=0 min=0
trace: sc_hash(): scapi.c, 416:
trace: sc_get_properlength(): scapi.c, 117:
Illegal Instruction

I have tried copying a cactid.conf (the snmp config not the database connection config) from another server containing this:

engineBoots 25060
oldEngineID 0x800007e5806038bc768c701a45

But the same results occur.

Running a truss on cactid ends with this output:

Incurred fault #1, FLTILL %pc = 0x00265BC8
siginfo: SIGILL ILL_ILLOPC addr=0x00265BC8
Received signal #4, SIGILL [default]
siginfo: SIGILL ILL_ILLOPC addr=0x00265BC8

I have also tried using cactid-0.8.6g with the same problems.

Has anyone run into this issue or has anyone got any ideas?

edit: Forgot to mention that snmpwalk works fine in the net-snmp install, so that appears to be ok as far as I can tell.

[gordonj]

Any ideas anyone?

[anteater]

Hi,
i got it running with the following configure call
./configure --prefix=/opt/cactid --with-mysql=<path to mysql> --with-snmp=<path to net-snmp>

the cactid.conf file is located in /etc and looks like this:
DB_Host localhost
DB_Database cacti
DB_User cactiuser
DB_Pass <password>
DB_Port 3306


What does an ldd on the cactid give ?

[gordonj]

> ./configure --prefix=/opt/cactid --with-mysql=<path to mysql> --with-snmp=<path to net-snmp>

Yeah that looks pretty similar to what I had:

./configure --with-mysql=/cacti/apps/mysql --with-snmp=/cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3 --prefix=/cacti/apps/cactid-0.8.6i

> the cactid.conf file is located in /etc and looks like this:

Yeah I've got that file ok and it can connect to the database, but it's a different cactid.conf that gets looked for, I think by net-snmp when it is initialised, I not sure if it's important that it's missing, as I mentioned I've tried copying this file from another working (Linux) box, but I get the same result.

>What does an ldd on the cactid give ?

libnetsnmp.so.9 => /cacti/apps/net-snmp/lib/libnetsnmp.so.9
libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
libkstat.so.1 => /lib/libkstat.so.1
libpthread.so.1 => /lib/libpthread.so.1
libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2
libsocket.so.1 => /lib/libsocket.so.1
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1
libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1
libdl.so.1 => /lib/libdl.so.1
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
libmp.so.2 => /lib/libmp.so.2
libmd5.so.1 => /lib/libmd5.so.1
libscf.so.1 => /lib/libscf.so.1
libdoor.so.1 => /lib/libdoor.so.1
libuutil.so.1 => /lib/libuutil.so.1
/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/platform/SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240/lib/libmd5_psr.so.1

[TheWitness]

The cactid.conf file iwth the database information in it is not the Cactid.conf that net-snmp want's access to. I will do a little research on this and get back to you.

TheWitness

[TheWitness]

Edit, snmp.c in the Cactid source directory and search for three instances of "init_snmp". Change those lines from 'init_snmp("cactid")' to 'init_snmp("")' and let me know how it goes.

TheWitness

[anteater]

Hi,
the only idea/suggestion i have now is to recompile snmp/cacti with the Sun Studio 11 Compiler. Might be a problem off gcc and the not with gcc compiled libs. Studio 11 is for free, you can find it on http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/index.jsp

[gordonj]

Thanks for the replies.

The cactid.conf file iwth the database information in it is not the Cactid.conf that net-snmp want's access to. I will do a little research on this and get back to you.

I found this cactid.conf on a working Linux box (in /var/net-snmp iirc). I got the same result with this is place as not.

engineBoots 25060
oldEngineID 0x800007e5806038bc768c701a45

Edit, snmp.c in the Cactid source directory and search for three instances of "init_snmp". Change those lines from 'init_snmp("cactid")' to 'init_snmp("")' and let me know how it goes..

Unfortunatly I get the same end result. Now it looks for a file called '.conf'. Here's the full output from the snmp debugging from the start of config reading until where it fails. I'm thinking this snmp cacti config file might be a red herring anyway?

trace: read_configs(): read_config.c, 841:
read_config: reading normal configuration tokens
trace: read_config_files(): read_config.c, 1089:
read_config: config path used: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/etc/snmp:/cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/share/snmp:/cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/lib/snmp://.snmp:/var/net-snmp
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/etc/snmp/snmp.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/etc/snmp/snmp.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 719:
read_config: Reading configuration /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/share/snmp/snmp.conf
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 779:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/share/snmp/snmp.conf:33 examining: dodebugging 1
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 779:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/share/snmp/snmp.conf:53 examining: mibdirs /cacti/apps/net-snmp/share/snmp/mibs
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/share/snmp/snmp.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/lib/snmp/snmp.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/lib/snmp/snmp.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: //.snmp/snmp.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: //.snmp/snmp.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /var/net-snmp/snmp.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /var/net-snmp/snmp.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config_files(): read_config.c, 1089:
read_config: config path used: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/etc/snmp:/cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/share/snmp:/cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/lib/snmp://.snmp:/var/net-snmp
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/etc/snmp/.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/etc/snmp/.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/share/snmp/.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/share/snmp/.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/lib/snmp/.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /cacti/apps/net-snmp-5.2.3/lib/snmp/.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: //.snmp/.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: //.snmp/.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /var/net-snmp/.conf: No such file or directory
trace: read_config(): read_config.c, 700:
read_config: /var/net-snmp/.local.conf: No such file or directory
trace: netsnmp_ds_set_boolean(): default_store.c, 205:
netsnmp_ds_set_boolean: Setting LIB:27 = 1/True
trace: snmp_call_callbacks(): callback.c, 205:
callback: START calling callbacks for maj=0 min=0
trace: snmp_call_callbacks(): callback.c, 219:
callback: calling a callback for maj=0 min=0
trace: sc_hash(): scapi.c, 416:
trace: sc_get_properlength(): scapi.c, 117:
Illegal Instruction

The only idea/suggestion i have now is to recompile snmp/cacti with the Sun Studio 11 Compiler. Might be a problem off gcc and the not with gcc compiled libs. Studio 11 is for free, you can find it on http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/index.jsp

Thanks I'll give that a go.