Nagios 2.0 hanging on startup, consuming 99% CPU

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jason Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:04:47AM -0400, Daniel maher wrote:
> 
>>That's where it hangs and eats the processor.  I let it sit
>>for about 10 minutes before finally ctrl-c'ing out.  The
>>symptoms are easily reproducible.  Here is the *only* contact
>>definition in my contacts.cfg:
> 
> Does it exhibit the behavior if you add another contact? I seem
> to recall a list posting about a bug in the circular-dependency
> code that occured if there is only one object. I think  a patch
> was posted as well.
> 

That's somewhat correct. It's not a circular dependency, but rather a 
linked list circularity where Nagios doesn't check if ->next is first, 
so to speak, so it parses the same object over and over again.
I too remember someone crude-hacking their way around this, but I can't 
say for sure it will fix the problem or not.

> -Jason Martin

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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