Satellite: monitoring not working and seeing 'Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at' in some of the monitoring logs

Issue

• Trying to start monitoring:

2013-04-03 16:43:00 95: Freshening heartbeat file /var/lib/nocpulse/commands/heartbeat
2013-04-03 16:43:00 176: No commands executed, sleeping 60 seconds
2013-04-03 16:44:00 96: Starting queue run
2013-04-03 16:44:00 95: Freshening heartbeat file /var/lib/nocpulse/commands/heartbeat
2013-04-03 16:44:00 104: >--Attempting to fetch commands (attempt 0)
2013-04-03 16:44:00 95: >---Queue server URL:  https://www.example.com/satconfig/cgi-mod-perl/fetch_commands.cgi?cluster_id=48df0fb6e2ef&node_id=2&role=lead&version=1.0
2013-04-03 16:44:00 95: >---Successfully got command list
2013-04-03 16:44:00 95: >---CommandQueueParser parsing 23 bytes 
2013-04-03 16:44:00 95: >---Parser::parse returning NOCpulse::CommandQueue=HASH(0x3e12d70)
2013-04-03 16:44:00 95: >---CQ::fetch_commands returning NOCpulse::CommandQueue=HASH(0x3e12d70)
2013-04-03 16:44:00 121: >--Fetched 0 commands
2013-04-03 16:44:00 157: Finished processing commands
2013-04-03 16:44:00 164: Checking bloat 
2013-04-03 16:44:00 195: >--I am bloated (159348 kb) and will now restart myself
2013-04-03 16:44:00 83: ***************************************************************************
2013-04-03 16:44:00 84: Starting command execution daemon for cluster 48df0fb6e2ef node 2
2013-04-03 16:44:00 85: ***************************************************************************
2013-04-03 16:44:00 86: Logging to /var/log/nocpulse/execute_commands.log
2013-04-03 16:44:00 87: Log level: 3
2013-04-03 16:44:00 88: Heartbeat file: /var/lib/nocpulse/commands/heartbeat
2013-04-03 16:44:00 89: Heartbeat frequency: 60 seconds
2013-04-03 16:44:00 90: Restart command: /usr/bin/execute_commands
2013-04-03 16:44:00 96: Starting queue run
2013-04-03 16:44:00 95: Freshening heartbeat file /var/lib/nocpulse/commands/heartbeat
2013-04-03 16:44:00 104: >--Attempting to fetch commands (attempt 0)
2013-04-03 16:44:00 95: >---Queue server URL:  https://www.example.com/satconfig/cgi-mod-perl/fetch_commands.cgi?cluster_id=48df0fb6e2ef&node_id=2&role=lead&version=1.0
2013-04-03 16:44:01 95: >---Successfully got command list
2013-04-03 16:44:01 95: >---CommandQueueParser parsing 23 bytes 
2013-04-03 16:44:01 95: >---Parser::parse returning NOCpulse::CommandQueue=HASH(0x1eb72d70)
2013-04-03 16:44:01 95: >---CQ::fetch_commands returning NOCpulse::CommandQueue=HASH(0x1eb72d70)
2013-04-03 16:44:01 121: >--Fetched 0 commands
2013-04-03 16:44:01 157: Finished processing commands
2013-04-03 16:44:01 95: Freshening heartbeat file /var/lib/nocpulse/commands/heartbeat
2013-04-03 16:44:01 176: No commands executed, sleeping 60 seconds

• But seeing these errors in the related monitoring logs:

$ tail -n 5 AckProcessor-error.log  
2013-04-03 21:13:40  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/ack-processor line 401.
2013-04-03 21:13:42  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/ack-processor line 401.
2013-04-03 21:13:43  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/ack-processor line 401.
2013-04-03 21:13:44  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/ack-processor line 401.
2013-04-03 21:13:45  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/ack-processor line 401.

$ tail -n 5 Notifier-error.log 
2013-04-03 21:13:15  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/notifier line 239.
2013-04-03 21:13:17  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/notifier line 239.
2013-04-03 21:13:18  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/notifier line 239.
2013-04-03 21:13:19  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/notifier line 239.
2013-04-03 21:13:20  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/notifier line 239.

$ tail -n 5 GenerateNotifConfig-error.log
2013-04-03 21:13:32  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/generate-config line 87.
2013-04-03 21:13:33  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/generate-config line 87.
2013-04-03 21:13:35  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/generate-config line 87.
2013-04-03 21:13:36  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/generate-config line 87.
2013-04-03 21:13:37  Can't call method "autoflush" on an undefined value at /usr/bin/generate-config line 87.

$ tail -n 5 Dequeuer-errors.log
2013-04-03 21:13:23  Can't call method "linenumbers" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/NOCpulse/SMON.pm line 41.
2013-04-03 21:13:25  Can't call method "linenumbers" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/NOCpulse/SMON.pm line 41.
2013-04-03 21:13:26  Can't call method "linenumbers" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/NOCpulse/SMON.pm line 41.
2013-04-03 21:13:27  Can't call method "linenumbers" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/NOCpulse/SMON.pm line 41.
2013-04-03 21:13:28  Can't call method "linenumbers" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/NOCpulse/SMON.pm line 41.