9.8.2 Assertion Failures

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Tue Jul 17 13:54:19 UTC 2012


In message <F1CC45AB04792A47A2C3794E518996FC0EB6A2 at MAKMB01P.Mail.Ks.Gov>, "Bailey, Morgan [BT]" writes:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> We have recently made some major changes to our DNS infrastructure.  This i=
> nvolved consolidating servers and standardizing on a single RHEL6 platform.=
>   We currently running the latest RHEL6 packaged BIND release of 9.8.2 (9.8=
> .2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6).  Lately on one of our busier names server=
> s the named daemon has been crashing with assertion errors.  Here is a rece=
> nt log snippet:
> 
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: rbtdb.c:1619: INSIST(!((void *)((node)->=
> deadlink.prev) !=3D (void *)(-1))) failed, back trace
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: #0 0x7f8444865c2f in ??
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: #1 0x7f844321c89a in ??
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: #2 0x7f84440f2883 in ??
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: #3 0x7f84440f82cb in ??
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: #4 0x7f844415829f in ??
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: #5 0x7f844415e4c0 in ??
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: #6 0x7f844323b2f8 in ??
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: #7 0x7f8442bf0851 in ??
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: #8 0x7f844215367d in ??
> Jul 17 07:36:51 ks01 named[11224]: exiting (due to assertion failure)
> Jul 17 07:36:55 ks01 abrt[29353]: Saved core dump of pid 11224 (/usr/sbin/n=
> amed) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2012-07-17-07:36:51-11224 (346398720 bytes)
> Jul 17 07:36:55 ks01 abrtd: Directory 'ccpp-2012-07-17-07:36:51-11224' crea=
> tion detected
> 
> I did a little research and found a few forum posts where others were havin=
> g the same or similar problems and the general consensus was that this was =
> a problem that was fixed in 9.8.2.  Apparently my problem is slightly diffe=
> rent or the issue wasn't fixed.
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> Is anyone else having this problem, and if so what did you do to remedy it?

You should install 9.8.2 or later.  You are currently running 9.8.2rc1.

>   Also, I have the coredump.  Where should I send it for further analysis?
> 
> Morgan Bailey
> Information Security Engineer
> Office of Information Technology Services
> 785-296-3706
> 
>
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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