[munin-users] Debian Perl 5.10->5.12 & Munin-node 1.4

[Dominic Hargreaves]

[Adding CC to Debian perl maintainers, for info]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 03:08:45PM +0200, Andreas Schamanek wrote:
> Just 2 quick remarks for the archives so they might help others:
> I upgraded Perl on a Debian machine from 5.10 to 5.12 (5.12.4 is 
> currently in Debian testing).
> 
> Afterwards I had to deal with 2 errors. The first error was myself,
> because I simply forgot to restart munin-node after the Perl upgrade.
> That's quite embarrassing. So, please, let me at least be the bad 
> example ;)

That's Debian bug #626346.

> After restarting munin-node I found the following errors in 
> munin-node.log:
> 
>   CONNECT TCP Peer: "127.0.0.1:33578" Local: "127.0.0.1:4949"
>   Error output from diskstats: Byte order is not compatible at 
>   ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into ../../lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) 
>   line 415, at /etc/munin/plugins/diskstats line 120
>   Service 'diskstats' exited with status 255/0.
>   Error output from iostat_ios: Byte order is not compatible at 
>   ../../lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into  
>   ../../lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380, at 
>   /etc/munin/plugins/iostat_ios line 218
>   Service 'iostat_ios' exited with status 25/0.
> 
> It seems that an appropriate fix for this is to clear the plugin-state 
> files for diskstats and iostat-ios, e.g. with
> 
>   rm /var/lib/munin/plugin-state/{diskstats,iostat-ios}*

That should definitely be filed as a bug with Debian.

Cheers,
Dominic.

-- 
Dominic Hargreaves, Systems Development and Support Team
Computing Services, University of Oxford
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