[rrd-users] RRDs seems broken on OpenBSD

[jim steele]

The command line rrdtool works properly. Does this mean there is
something wrong with RRDs? If so, is it something that I can fix or is
it an rrdtool development issue?

On 4/9/07, Sam Umbach <sumbach at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/9/07, jim steele <jsteele1997 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I installed rrdtool 1.2.19 on my newly-installed OpenBSD 4.0 machine,
> > exactly according to the instructions provided. It compiles and
> > installs fine, and the rrdtool command line program works properly,
> > and produces this output:
>
> > However, when I try to use RRDs in a perl script, I get this error:
> >
> > /usr/bin/perl:/usr/local/rrdtool-1.2.19/lib/librrd.so.2.9: undefined
> > symbol 'art_alloc'
> > lazy binding failed!
> > Segmentation fault
>
> Looks like a missing dependency.  rrdtool 1.2.x depends on libart_lgpl
> (as well as libfreetype and libpng).  The first thing to try is ldd
> (or the equivalent on OpenBSD).  Here is the output on my Fedora Core
> 6 box:
> $ ldd `which rrdtool`
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00ddf000)
>         librrd.so.2 => /usr/lib/librrd.so.2 (0x00212000)
>         libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x05f1f000)
>         libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00d4b000)
>         libart_lgpl_2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 (0x006ea000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00d03000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00bc4000)
>         libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x05e9d000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x001f5000)
>
> > This is the code I am using in my perl script:
> >         ($cpuavg,$xsize,$ysize) = RRDs::graph(
> >                 '/var/www/htdocs/test/test.png',
> >                 '--start','-900',
> >                 '--end','-300',
> >                 "DEF:test=$rrd_root/$host/$host_cpu.rrd:ds0:AVERAGE",
> >                 "DEF:test2=$rrd_root/$host/$host_cpu.rrd:ds1:AVERAGE",
> >                 'PRINT:test:AVERAGE:%lf',
> >                 'PRINT:test2:AVERAGE:%lf');
>
> Try running the equivalent rrdtool graph command at the command-line
> (this may not be perfect, but it's close):
> rrdtool graph
>   /var/www/htdocs/test/test.png
>   --start -900
>   --end -300
>   DEF:test=$rrd_root/$host/$host_cpu.rrd:ds0:AVERAGE
>   DEF:test2=$rrd_root/$host/$host_cpu.rrd:ds1:AVERAGE
>   PRINT:test:AVERAGE:%lf
>   PRINT:test2:AVERAGE:%lf
>
> If that shows the same error message, the problem lies with rrdtool, not RRDs.
>
> -Sam
>