Illegal seek (reprise)

[bill davidsen]

In article <87broq2uy3.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery  <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
| Aioe <tecniche at aioe.org> writes:
| 
| > if i use empty perl scripts, inn crashes in the same way.  If i disable
| > perl script (ctlinnd perl n), after a short painfull life, inn crashes
| > again but in a different manner:
| 
| If you have Python support compiled in, you may want to try the patch I
| posted separately just a few minutes ago.  There was definitely a memory
| clobber in the Python filtering code that may be triggering even if you're
| not planning on using a Python filter.

| > When INN works wrong, _every_ article i feed inside make a crash like
| > this.  When INN works well, it accepts all articles as usual. The only
| > way to recover INN is a complete reinstallation.
| 
| Well, a complete reinstallation isn't going to solve this problem, so you
| must be changing something else during the reinstallation (like removing
| your incoming spool) to make the problem go away.  Either that, or it's
| just chance.

By any chance is this an SMP machine? There are some memory hardware
problems which seem to only show in shared memory with SMP. I certainly
don't have a memory checker which would play with the same memory with
multiple processors, so all I can do is ask.
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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.