Hi there. I have been having trouble creating a user in bugzilla and wanted to let you guys know about a bug I run into. syslog-ng version: 3.4.3 built from sources syslog-ng -V: syslog-ng 3.4.3 Installer-Version: 3.4.3 Revision: ssh+git://algernon@git.balabit /var/scm/git/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-ose--mainline--3.4#no_branch#64d670f3cbfb90769f3c7f0fdd9c70bb9136ec5b Compile-Date: Sep 11 2013 05:33:29 Available-Modules: confgen,afsocket-tls,csvparser,affile,system-source,syslogformat,afuser,dbparser,afsocket-notls,basicfuncs,cryptofuncs,afsocket,afprog Enable-Debug: off Enable-GProf: off Enable-Memtrace: off Enable-IPv6: on Enable-Spoof-Source: off Enable-TCP-Wrapper: on Enable-Linux-Caps: off Enable-Pcre: on On rare occasions (I can't reproduce it reliably) syslog-ng segfaults when reloading (syslog-ng-ctl reload). I have a core dump file that gave me this stack trace: #0 0x00007fbd30102131 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007fbd30101d76 in strdup () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007fbd2f868b19 in evt_tag_str (tag=0x7fbd309a42f0 "encoding", value=0xffffffffffffffff <Address 0xffffffffffffffff out of bounds>) at evttags.c:76 #3 0x00007fbd3097918c in log_proto_server_options_validate (options=<optimized out>) at logproto-server.c:138 #4 0x00007fbd3097d191 in log_proto_server_validate_options (self=<optimized out>) at logproto-server.h:82 #5 log_reader_init (s=0x14a6a30) at logreader.c:638 #6 0x00007fbd2e9d5b07 in log_pipe_init (cfg=0x0, s=0x14a6a30) at ../../lib/logpipe.h:253 #7 log_pipe_init (cfg=0x0, s=0x14a6a30) at afsocket-source.c:763 #8 afsocket_sc_init (s=0x14a68f0) at afsocket-source.c:149 #9 0x00007fbd2e9d67fd in log_pipe_init (cfg=0x0, s=0x14a68f0) at ../../lib/logpipe.h:253 #10 log_pipe_init (cfg=0x0, s=0x14a68f0) at afsocket-source.c:763 #11 afsocket_sd_init (s=0x1489630) at afsocket-source.c:548 #12 0x00007fbd2e9d9719 in afunix_sd_init (s=<optimized out>) at afunix-source.c:194 #13 0x00007fbd3096d27a in log_pipe_init (cfg=<optimized out>, s=0x1489630) at logpipe.h:253 #14 cfg_tree_start (self=0x1c15c48) at cfg-tree.c:1064 #15 0x00007fbd309685de in cfg_init (cfg=0x1c15ae0) at cfg.c:220 #16 0x00007fbd30984faf in main_loop_reload_config_apply () at mainloop.c:501 #17 0x00007fbd3096d699 in control_connection_reload (self=0x1d09e90, command=<optimized out>) at control.c:150 #18 0x00007fbd3096dae8 in control_connection_io_input (s=0x1d09e90) at control.c:242 #19 control_connection_io_input (s=0x1d09e90) at control.c:172 #20 0x00007fbd309a106c in iv_fd_poll_and_run (st=0x1482580, to=<optimized out>) at iv_fd.c:163 #21 0x00007fbd309a1aac in iv_main () at iv_main_posix.c:117 #22 0x00007fbd309859fb in main_loop_run () at mainloop.c:736 #23 0x000000000040142b in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffd8212a58) at main.c:267 When at frame #5, I got this: (gdb) print *self->proto->options $19 = {destroy = 0, initialized = -1, encoding = 0xffffffffffffffff <Address 0xffffffffffffffff out of bounds>, convert = 0xffffffffffffffff, max_msg_size = -1, max_buffer_size = 0, init_buffer_size = 0} I could not find anywhere in the code where initialized is set to -1, so I assume this is some kind of memory corruption. Let me know if you need anything else from me. Cheers. -Gonzalo