Whoops! Could not read host and service status information!

Nagios Nagios Installation support
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I’ve seen and read most of the topics about this problem, but somehow they dont help me atm.

Let me first point out that i didnt install Nagios… i “took over” the maintanance from 2 other people… so some stuff isnt “default” and i might have overlooked something while checking all the logs and cfg files… so bear with me pl :wink:

We’ve been running Nagios 2.0 (1.4.1 plugins) for a year or 2-3 now and it worked fine.
But since a couple of days now, i get the error “Whoops! Could not read host and service status information!” in the webinterface.

I checked the .cfg files (nagios, hosts, hostsgroups, cgi etc…) and they havent been changed since Nagios was installed.
Everything looks ok (all pointing to the right directories etc…)

WHen i run the pre-flight check, i get 0 errors (things look ok - no serious problems were detected…)
Apache.log also shows no errors.
The only “problem” i see is in Nagios.log where it says "Error: Could not lock status data tables in database ‘nagios’ "
But i dont know if that has anything to do with my innitial problem.

I read somewhere that you need a status.lock in ur /var/log/nagios directory… i dont have it. instead i have a status.sav.
When check nagios.cfg i see that it does create a status.lock, but then rewrites it to sav…

Any advice would be helpfull (besides “upgrade to 3.0” :wink: )

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Comming back to that one error i found, "Error: Could not lock status data tables in database ‘nagios’"
Seeing that this error started around the time the problems started… i am rethinking my last statement :slight_smile:

So i went looking for a solution to that particular error, but again, all things that they mention are not helping me atm.

  1. I have no other nagios process running.
  2. the correct user:group permissions are set to the /etc/nagios directory

Anything else i could try??
(if you need a copy/paste of a certain log file let me know.)

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Nobody?
Been at it (on and off) for a week now… i cant get it to work.
Any help would be appreciated