[syslog-ng]segfault signal 11, core dump, 1.5.26, 1.6.0rc1

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:37:13PM +0200, narancs wrote:
> Hi all folks!
> 
> I have a debian woody with kernel 2.4.20 on i386.
> it is a network log collector server with several udp and tcp sources.
> also some sources come from behind firewalls.
> 
> it was working for weeks w/o problems with the 1.5.26-1.deb downloaded 
> directly from balabit site.
> before that it was working for months with the 1.5.1x woody default pkg. 
> which doesn't really work well with tcp connections.
> (that's why the upgrade happened)
> 
> since some days the daemon segfaults each 2-5 minutes and dumps core.
> I have compiled on a woody machine the 1.6.0rc1 but that acts the same.
> 
> I've tried with different config modifications, but it acts the same.
> 
> Now after debugging it for days/hours I am really angry not finding the 
> root of the problem.
> 
> Also memtest86 found the memory clean and all other services on the 
> machine are working fine.
> 
> How should I fix this situation and get this working again?
> we have critical bussiness apps related to this service.

please compile libol and syslog-ng with symbols (--enable-debug for both
libol and syslog-ng configure script), have syslog-ng dump core and do

gdb syslog-ng -c core
gdb) bt

the results of the backtrace command is useful for finding the problems.

Thanks.

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