[syslog-ng] 1.9.9 segmentation fault

20 Mar 2006

      testing with syslog-ng 1.9.9
recently configured a pipe destination (config below)
log processing to the pipe occurs as expected - then get a segmentation fault
have seen it run perfectly for days, other times hours/minutes
Linux distribution is FC4 (also RHEL 3 and 4)

server has handled 500k-2M transactions daily over the past week (works fine
when logging to file).

below if the info I've collected so far.  Let me know if you need additional.
any ideas?

strace -p {pid} output:

time([1142745045])                      = 1142745045
time([1142745045])                      = 1142745045
gettimeofday({1142745045, 307328}, NULL) = 0
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLOUT, revents=POLLOUT}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3,
events=POLLIN}], 3, 550317) = 1
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) =0
write(6, "INSERT INTO logs (\n      host,\n "..., 625) = 625
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) =0
write(6, "INSERT INTO logs (\n      host,\n "..., 625) = 625
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) =0
write(6, "INSERT INTO logs (\n      host,\n "..., 625) = 625
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) =0
write(6, "INSERT INTO logs (\n      host,\n "..., 625) = 625
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) =0
write(6, "INSERT INTO logs (\n      host,\n "..., 625) = 625
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) =0
write(6, "INSERT INTO logs (\n      host,\n "..., 585) = 585
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) =0
write(6, "INSERT INTO logs (\n      host,\n "..., 746) = 746
stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) =0
write(6, "INSERT INTO logs (\n      host,\n "..., 644) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource
temporarily unavailable)
gettimeofday({1142745045, 310203}, NULL) = 0
time(NULL)                              = 1142745045
time(NULL)                              = 1142745045
gettimeofday({1142745045, 310286}, NULL) = 0
time(NULL)                              = 1142745045
time(NULL)                              = 1142745045
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
kill(12488, SIGSEGV)                    = 0
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---

internal shows nothing out of the ordinary.

daemon in foreground w/debug:

Reducing stack by rule 2 (line 188), stmt ';' stmts -> stmts
Stack now 0 9 25
Entering state 74
Reducing stack by rule 2 (line 188), stmt ';' stmts -> stmts
Stack now 0
Entering state 8
Reducing stack by rule 1 (line 184), stmts -> start
Stack now 0
Entering state 7
Now at end of input.
Segmentation fault

Here is the config:

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------

options {
  chain_hostnames(no); #default yes
  keep_hostname(yes); #default no
  create_dirs(no); #default
  use_dns(no); #default yes
  use_fqdn(no); #default
  owner(root);
  group(root);
  perm(0600); 
};

###############################################################################
# sources

source abs_udp514 {
  udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
};

source abs_localhost {
  internal();
};

###############################################################################
# destinations

destination abd_localhost {
  file(
    "/var/log/localhost.log"
  );
};

destination abd_mysql {
  pipe(
    "/tmp/mysql.pipe"
    template("INSERT INTO logs (
      host,
      facility,
      priority,
      datetime,
      date,
      time,
      year,
      month,
      day,
      hour,
      min,
      sec,
      week,
      unixtime,
      tzoffset,
      tz,
      program,
      msg
    ) VALUES (
      '$HOST',
      '$FACILITY',
      '$PRIORITY',
      '$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY $HOUR:$MIN:$SEC',
      '$YEAR-$MONTH-$DAY',
      '$HOUR:$MIN:$SEC',
      '$YEAR',
      '$MONTH',
      '$DAY',
      '$HOUR',
      '$MIN',
      '$SEC',
      '$WEEK',
      '$UNIXTIME',
      '$TZOFFSET',
      '$TZ',
      '$PROGRAM',
      '$MSG');\n"
    )
    template_escape(yes)
  );
};      

###############################################################################
# logs

log {
  source(abs_udp514);
  destination(abd_mysql);
};
log {
  source(abs_localhost);
  destination(abd_localhost);
};
#
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks,

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[syslog-ng] 1.9.9 segmentation fault

Martin, David M