One child process died. Exiting ver 1.4.2

[fmtaylor2]

I have 1.4.0 installed and running fine (has been for a while now). The server, its database, and everything have been following the migration path since 1.1.x.

I tried to upgrade to 1.4.2 today with no joy. Everything compiles just fine, but the server won't stay up. keeps giving me the classic "One child process died. Exiting".

I applied the "ALTER TABLE trends MODIFY value_max double(24,4);" mysql fixes, but they didn't fix anything.

Linux boris 2.6.18-8.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jan 26 14:15:14 EST 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

A roll back to 1.4.0 works fine. Any answers??

[fmtaylor2]

More info

I also tried the 1.4.3 build from today. It compiled ok, but has the same issue...

[Alexei]

I am very interested in more details. Please increase Debug level to 4 and send the whole zabbix_server.log to a l e x @ z a b b i x . c o m after next crash.

[fmtaylor2]

done

logs sent.

[Alexei]

Thanks for the logs. This is a known (not yet fixed) problem with old syntax of aggreagated checks. As a workaround you may disable aggregate checks or update them to use new syntax described in ZABBIX Manual.

[cbidwell]

I'm having this same issue. Not quite sure what you mean by disabling aggregate checks. Would that be "active" checks? Bare w/ me as I'm still fairly new to Zabbix. I'm trying to sell my team on Zabbix as opposed to Big Brother.

[fmtaylor2]

The short answer

Thanks for the logs. This is a known (not yet fixed) problem with old syntax of aggreagated checks. As a workaround you may disable aggregate checks or update them to use new syntax described in ZABBIX Manual.

Thanks, I finally got around to fixing this issue. For those who haven't figured it out yet, to fix your aggreagated checks, change parentheses to square brackets and change single quotes to double quotes and you should be good to go.

[twydyn]

Can someone please tell me which file i need to edit in order to fix this? I am looking at the manual and i cannot find where i need to make the change. Any details on this issue will be greatly appreciated. thanks!

[twydyn]

nobody has the solution to this problem?

Does anyone have a howto for fixing this issue? Appears a few of us are affected but noone will give a detailed fix.

Thanks in advance.

[tahir.bhatti]

Use zabbix-1.4.4, the problem will be solved.

[ashuji]

I am using new syntax but still problem exist

Hi

I am using new syntax for grpsum but still this problem persisit, below here is the new syntax I have applied, please suggest if any change required:

grpsum["Job_Servers","jmx[PGiCOS:name=jobManager][TotalJobsProcessed]","last","0"]

[treelowa]

I am using a 1.8.2 and I get errors whenever I try enable monitoring via the admin/config/hosts web page. As soon as enable monitoring the zabbix_server processes die.

I am very very frustrated with this as I have come to a dead end now! I don't know where to turn. I think I may be moving to a different product if I cant get this resolved.