latest CVS innd core dumps ...

[The Hermit Hacker]

Just had my server go down, but didn't have debugging enabled, it seems
... core file yeilds the following:

news.hub.org> gdb bin/innd /news/spool/articles/innd.core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `innd'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /news/admin/lib/libstorage.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /news/admin/lib/libinn.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libdb3.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libperl.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.4...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libutil.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
#0  0x48289d4e in isatty () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
(gdb) where
#0  0x48289d4e in isatty () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#1  0x4828a0a1 in isatty () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#2  0x4828a240 in isatty () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#3  0x4828a9dd in realloc () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#4  0x480e69b4 in x_realloc () from /news/admin/lib/libinn.so.2
#5  0x804deb4 in ARTparsepath ()
#6  0x804f4e0 in ARTparse ()
#7  0x806088d in NCproc ()
#8  0x80617c4 in NCreader ()
#9  0x805a6b1 in CHANreadloop ()
#10 0x805e70b in main ()
#11 0x804d467 in _start ()

I'm recompiling with debugging and will upgrade as appropriate, so that
if/when it happens again, it will hopefully give better results, but maybe
this helps? *shrug*

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy at hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org