OMDD application failed to startup due to SHM key collision.
Issue
- When attempt to start-up the OMDD application via ssh, the application processes failed with following error:
2014/07/29 23:39:51.648 | xab-cde[23416] | error | CircularBufferMng::CircularBufferMng() Problem creating shared memory pool for
2014/07/29 23:39:51.665 | xab-rst[23417] | error | Xdp::ShmUtils::attachShm - ERROR getting shm segment with key 33751928 and size 8444 : Invalid argument
- We then stopped the BMC Patrol agent and then restarted the OMDD application successfully.
- OMDD application is using ftok function to generate SHM key.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
- OMDD application
- BMC Patrol agent
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