Help needed in deciphering the timeout messages on the search-head indexer ui

[hmahendrakumar]

We have seen the following splunkd daemon messages not responding in the ui.What does it mean?

2011-02-05 01:33:06,793 ERROR [4d4ca8a1dbc36cce90] decorators:347 - Splunkd daemon is not responding: ('timed out',) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/decorators.py", line 333, in handle_exceptions return fn(self, *a, **kw) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/view.py", line 1219, in render templateArgs = self.buildViewTemplate(app, view_id, action, q, sid, s, earliest, latest, remote_server_list, now=now) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/view.py", line 911, in buildViewTemplate appConfig = self.getAppConfig(app, view_id, build_nav) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/view.py", line 482, in getAppConfig output['nav'], tmp_dv = self.getAppNav(appName, output['available_views']) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/view.py", line 195, in getAppNav self._replaceNavTokens(navDefinition, viewManifest, app) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/view.py", line 248, in _replaceNavTokens searches = en.getEntities('saved/searches', namespace=app, search='is_visible=1 AND disabled=0', count=500) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/entity.py", line 152, in getEntities serverResponse, serverContent = rest.simpleRequest(uri, getargs=kwargs, sessionKey=sessionKey, raiseAllErrors=True) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/rest/init.py", line 373, in simpleRequest raise splunk.SplunkdConnectionException, str(e) SplunkdConnectionException: Splunkd daemon is not responding: ('timed out',)

2011-02-04 07:32:20,499 ERROR [4d4bab6628ac84d4d0] decorators:347 - Splunkd daemon is not responding: ('timed out',) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/decorators.py", line 333, in handle_exceptions return fn(self, *a, **kw) File "", line 1, in File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/lib/decorators.py", line 388, in apply_cache_headers response = fn(self, *a, **kw) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/appserver/mrsparkle/controllers/account.py", line 111, in login sessionKey = splunk.auth.getSessionKey(username, password, hostPath=self.splunkd_urlhost) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/auth.py", line 21, in getSessionKey serverResponse, serverContent = rest.simpleRequest(uri, postargs=args) File "/home/splunkuser/splunk/search-head-ui/lib/python2.6/site-packages/splunk/rest/init.py", line 373, in simpleRequest raise splunk.SplunkdConnectionException, str(e) SplunkdConnectionException: Splunkd daemon is not responding: ('timed out',)

[Ron_Naken]

I would open a support ticket for this.