[smokeping-users] Master-Slave: Magic number checking on storable file failed

[Olivier]

Replying to myself, a working beaglebone slave also have an armv7l
architecture (according arch command).

2015-12-29 14:57 GMT+01:00 Olivier <oza.4h07 at gmail.com>:

> I've got currently 4 slaves sending data to a single master.
> On this master, data is stored in /var/lib/smokeping.
> A /var/lib/smokeping/ __sortercache subdir exists with one file per probe
>
> I added a slave changing a line from "slaves=foo" to "slaves=foo bar" in
> /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets
> and then changing ownership of files in /var/lib/smokeping.
>
> Now files for new bar slave have the same properties than its sibling foo
> slave files.
> I also removed each *.storable file in /var/lib/smokeping/ __sortercache
>
> Still, smokeping refuses to start on my Raspi slave with the same old :
> Magic number checking on storable file failed at
> /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/perl/5.20/Storable.pm line 381, at
> /usr/share/perl5/Smokeping/Slave.pm line 70.
>
> My master and slave do not have the same architecture (one  is x86_64, the
> other is armv7l).
> Could it be a root cause ?
>
>
> 2015-12-28 21:06 GMT+01:00 Fligor, Debbie <fligor at illinois.edu>:
>
>> I’m pretty sure I hit this a couple of month ago working on getting a
>> smokeping slave running on Pidora, but google isn’t letting me find the
>> answer that helped me when I search with your error message.  If I am
>> recalling correctly, I had to remove an existing data_FPing.cache file in
>> the /opt/smokeping/data directory (your path will probaby be different),
>> and then it worked again. I only have FPing probes, so this may not be the
>> exact file you need to remove.
>>
>> Other threads on that error show Storable.pm having issues with 0-length
>> files.
>>
>> Hopefully this helps you narrow down the problem.
>>
>> -debbie
>>
>>
>> > On Dec 28, 2015, at 8:00, Olivier <oza.4h07 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm configuring my first Master-Slave setup.
>> >
>> > I've got one Beaglebone Black and one Raspberry Pi actings as slaves.
>> > My master is a remote Debian Jessie box with an Apache 2.4 server
>> >
>> > If I'm not mistaken, both slaves are configured the same way.
>> > Beaglebone Black(Debian Jessie) is working OK.
>> > Raspberry Pi smokeping daemon is failing to start with:
>> > Magic number checking on storable file failed at
>> /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/perl/5.20/Storable.pm line 381, at
>> /usr/share/perl5/Smokeping/Slave.pm line 70.
>> >
>> >
>> > How can I solve this ?
>> >
>> > Best regards
>>
>> --
>> -debbie
>> Debbie Fligor, n9dn       Lead Network Engineer @ Univ. of Il
>> email: fligor at illinois.edu
>> "I have lived most of my life surrounded by my enemies. I would be
>> grateful to die surrounded by my friends.” Gamora
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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