bb-rep.sh fails wit internal server error

[Tom Winterhalder]

Recently I installed xymon 4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-5 on an up to date Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS.

For testing purposes I installed xymon from the ubuntu repositories without changing any configurations.

Most of xymon/hobbit works exactly as expected. But when trying to generate an Availability Report I always get a 500 Internal Server error.

In the apache error.log i can find the following:
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 8:
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] include: not found
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>]
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 39:
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] include: not found
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>]
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 67:
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] include: not found
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>]
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 194:
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] include: not found
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>]
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 195:
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] include: not found
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>]
[Mon Nov 08 16:36:26 2010] [error] [client <IP>] Premature end of script headers: bb-rep.sh

At this point the script seems to look for an executable named include wich does not exist. I then modified the hobbitserver.cfg to include the definitions directly. As a side negative side effect, the menu disappeared after these modifications.

I tried again to create a report resulting in the followin error:
[Mon Nov 08 16:34:33 2010] [error] [client <IP>] Premature end of script headers: bb-rep.sh, referer: http://<fqdn>/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh

I don't think it is a permission problem, because also changing permissions and group to any other values than the default ones doesn't solve this issue.

[Tom Winterhalder (thwint)]

In the report I forgot to mention that the server on which we can see the problem is running the x86_64 version of Ubuntu. On another system with version 10.10 I have the same problem.

I tried to find out some more information about this error. Unfortunately I didn't find much information. When trying to create a report I can see the following error (in addition to the previously reported one):

Dec 3 15:32:36 akr001 bb-rep.cgi: *** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bb-rep.cgi terminated

Now I just installed a new testsystem in a virtual machine with 10.04.1 LTS x86 to find out if the problem is platform dependent. I also get the same errors.

[roemer2201 (roemer2201)]

I'm recieving the same errors while trying to generate a report:

$ tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log -n 0
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 8: , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] include: not found, referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 34: , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] include: not found, referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 62: , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] include: not found, referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 188: , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] include: not found, referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg: 189: , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] include: not found, referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] , referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:24:03 2011] [error] [client 192.168.3.250] Premature end of script headers: bb-rep.sh, referer: http://192.168.3.250/hobbit-cgi/bb-rep.sh
[Tue Jul 12 13:27:20 2011] [error] [client 192.168.0.112] client denied by server configuration: /var/www/

Is there any Solution out there for this problem?

[mgrazia (mgrazia)]

I have the same problem with the same errors while trying to generate a report.

Any idea? any suggestions?