Problems with new Cacti install

[Licho515]

After a clean install of Red Hat ES3, I installed the components that are showing in my sig.

I've had two problems that are preventing Cacti from running successfully.

1) RRD files were not created automatically, even though I'm running the poller.php in cron as cactiuser, and /rra /log have proper permissions. I solved this by manually running the command without the trailing "\" from Data Source Debug in the command line as cactiuser.

2) RRD files are not being updated. Not by poller.php or cmd.php. Not from cron or command line. When I run "/www/php/bin/php /www/htdocs/cacti/poller.php" from the command line, I get this output on screen:

[cactiuser@mrtg-borders log]$ /www/php/bin/php /www/htdocs/cacti/poller.php
11/18/2008 12:19:58 PM - POLLER: Poller[0] NOTE: Poller Int: '300', Cron Int: '300', Time Since Last: '621', Max Runtime
'298', Poller Runs: '1'
11/18/2008 12:19:58 PM - POLLER: Poller[0] WARNING: Cron is out of sync with the Poller Interval! The Poller Interval i
s '300' seconds, with a maximum of a '300' second Cron, but 621 seconds have passed since the last poll!
11/18/2008 12:19:58 PM - POLLER: Poller[0] DEBUG: About to Spawn a Remote Process [CMD: /usr/bin/php, ARGS: -q /www/htdo
cs/cacti/cmd.php 0 1]
Waiting on 1/1 pollers.
Waiting on 1/1 pollers.
.
.
.
.
Waiting on 1/1 pollers.
Waiting on 1/1 pollers.
11/18/2008 02:23:44 PM - POLLER: Poller[0] Maximum runtime of 298 seconds exceeded. Exiting.
11/18/2008 02:23:44 PM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:299.1013 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:2 HostsPerProcess:2 Da
taSources:5 RRDsProcessed:0

Warning: pclose(): 71 is not a valid stream resource in /www/htdocs/cacti/lib/rrd.php on line 57
Loop Time is: 299.103063107
Sleep Time is: 0.891872882843
Total Time is: 299.108127117
[cactiuser@mrtg-borders log]$

I have attached my cacti log as cacti.txt.

Any Ideas?

[khufure]

[Licho515]

Apache logs show no errors. I increased the PHP memory from 128MB to 256MB, but this didn't help. I have already went through the steps regarding the NaN images, but couldn't find a solution for my particular problem.

Then I bumped into this post: http://library.pantek.com/Mailing%20Lists/lists.sourceforge.net/cacti-user/07/07/0067.html

I did the exact same thing as this person. Seeing that the mysql command that kept on repeating in the cacti.log returned "empty set" when executed directly in mysql, I set up my cron to run cmd.php 1 minute AFTER poller.php. This caused the poller_time table to be populated, and the poller.php script (which kept looping for a minute) to end gracefully.

This had the result that my rrd files were automatically created, and are being populated right now.

My question remains, what is causing this?

[khufure]