Monitor service died and can not start on all Linux machines I run

[ephraim]

Hello there!

 

I had three Linux systems monitored and everything worked fine untill yesterday. Then one raspbian was reported offline around noon, other some time later, and when I booted old laptop with Debian it reported coming online on my iphone, only to go offline few minutes after that. All machines were online all the time, only pcmonitor service stopped working and can not be started.

 

Funny thing is that when I start it again it appears to actually work for few seconds before dying again. I can see that because iphone app says that system went offline few seconds ago.

 

Besides that I montiror one Windows 7 PC and I have no problems with that.

 

I haven't touched anything on two systems that appear to malfunction now. One of them is running CUPS that serves two home computers, and another is that old laptop I fired up just to check what's going on with monitoring. Those systems are on different networks.

 

Could someone please assist me with this, I have no clue.

 

BR,

 

E.

[Mark]

Hi,

 

Check if pcmonitord process is running: ps -auxw pcmonitord. If running, kill it. Then start it again: /etc/init.d/pcmonitor start.

Check logs (/var/log/syslog) afterwords and spot anything related to pcmonitord.

 

What distro/version have you installed?

 

Regards,

Mark

[ephraim]

Hi!

 

Entering ps shows no pcmonitor service working.

 

When I try to start service it goes off, but dies almost instantly.

 

From /var/log/syslog:

Feb  8 12:47:50 raspberrypi pcmonitor: Got exception signal: 11

uname -a returns:

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 3.10.25+ #622 PREEMPT Fri Jan 3 18:41:00 GMT 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux

Please note that I'm noob. Thanks.

 

EDIT: Oh, and I run plain out of the box Raspbian.

 

E.