[Orca-users] Re: Trouble generating .rrd files

[Blair Zajac]

kmtathome at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>   I'm getting the following messages when starting orca.  Seems to be
> having trouble parsing when creating the .rrd files.  Has anyone seen
> this before?  Is it just my config file that is causing me pain?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kevin
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> Saving state into `/usr/local/orca/rrd/stats/orca.state'.
> Updating PNGs.
> Creating HTML files in `/usr/local/orca/html/'.
> Sleeping at Thu Nov 15 09:54:57 2001 until Thu Nov 15 09:59:35 2001.
> root     209432  0.0  0.0  212  256  pts/8 A    09:59:36  0:00 grep
> 420906
> root     420906  0.0  0.0 4120 4412  pts/8 A    09:54:55  0:00 perl -w
> # -*- pe
> Current running time is 4:42 minutes.
> Loading new data from group orcallator for seadba01.
>   Read     4 data points from
> `/usr/local/orca/stats/seadba01/stats.2001-11-15-0944'.
> Flushing new data and updating PNGs from seadba01.
>   Creating RRD
> `/usr/local/orca/rrd/stats/o_seadba01/gauge_usr_pct.rrd'.
> ../bin/orca: RRDs::create error:
> `/usr/local/orca/rrd/stats/o_seadba01/gauge_usr_pct.rrd' can't parse
> argument '/usr/local/orca/rrd/stats/o_seadba01/gauge_usr_pct.rrd'
>   Creating RRD `/usr/local/orca/rrd/stats/o_seadba01/gauge_runq.rrd'.
> ../bin/orca: RRDs::create error:
> `/usr/local/orca/rrd/stats/o_seadba01/gauge_runq.rrd' can't parse
> argument '/usr/local/orca/rrd/stats/o_seadba01/gauge_15runq.rrd'
>   Creating RRD `/usr/local/orca/rrd/stats/o_seadba01/gauge_1runq.rrd'.
> ...
> ...

Kevin,

I've never seen this error before.

When you run Orca with the -v flags, which versions of Orca and RRDs are you
using?  Can you include the exact output?  They may be mismatched and causing
the problem?

Is this using the stock orcallator.cfg files?

Best,
Blair

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