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<p class="MsoNormal">Running syslog-ng-3.5.4.1/ on CentOS 6.5 started seeing core dumps in var.log/kern approximately once per week.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The “supervising syslog-ng” process seems to restart everything so the problem is not really being noticed (except we have gaps, pauses during which logging for some systems is not occurring)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is /var/log/kern from yesterday showing two process core dumps:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Feb 28 <b>18:05:03</b> sl.its.uwo.ca kernel: syslog-ng[45160]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f0a767d0acc sp 00007f0a6fffca50 error 6 in libsyslog-ng-3.5.4.1.so[7f0a7679e000+8b000]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Feb 28 <b>23:04:02</b> sl.its.uwo.ca kernel: syslog-ng[5442]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f0a767d0acc sp 00007f0a6fffca50 error 6 in libsyslog-ng-3.5.4.1.so[7f0a7679e000+8b000]<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is the approach I should use to investigate this (seemingly random) seg fault problem?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dave Lacerte<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">UWO.ca <o:p></o:p></p>
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