[syslog-ng]syslog-ng-1.4.17 crashes

[Heinz Ekker]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:07:02PM +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> can you analyze the core a bit more? (it is no use to send it to me, as it
> might contain libc different from my system)
> 
> gdb syslog-ng -c core
> (gdb) frame 4
> 
> this selects the frame of xalloc()
> 
> now display part of the stack:
> 
> p $ebp
> x/40 $ebp-20
> 
> I'll try to find how many bytes c_format_() wants to allocate. This might
> help to track down the problem.

Is that of any help for you?

(gdb) frame 4
#4  0x080530a7 in xalloc ()
(gdb) p $ebp
$1 = (void *) 0xbfffe868
(gdb) x/40 $ebp-20
0xbfffe854:     0x00000098      0x4014afa0      0x00000000      0xcedfcc12
0xbfffe864:     0xcedfcc12      0xbfffe888      0x080531f7      0xcedfcc21
0xbfffe874:     0x4014afa0      0xcedfcc12      0x0000003b      0x08075ce0
0xbfffe884:     0x0000003b      0xbfffe8b8      0x0805068f      0xcedfcc12
0xbfffe894:     0xbfffe8c4      0xbfffe8b8      0x4009f548      0x08075b70
0xbfffe8a4:     0x0806c224      0xbffff8e8      0x0000003b      0x08075ce0
0xbfffe8b4:     0x080817ac      0xbffff8f8      0x08053501      0x080540bd
0xbfffe8c4:     0xcedfcc12      0x3927911d      0x00000000      0x0806f5ac
0xbfffe8d4:     0x31203431      0x00001000      0x080691a8      0x3e32323c
0xbfffe8e4:     0x20766f4e      0x31203431      0x30303a33      0x2034323a

> This code is different in libol 0.3 (thus in syslog-ng 1.5) so it might be
> more stable.
> 
> 1.5.x itself seems to be solid (I don't know any pending problems now, other
> than minor cosmetic changes like the configure script)

So far I didn't experience any crashes, and judging by the MRTG graphs
based on the syslog entries, it seems to cope with the load.

Thanks for your help so far,
he