[syslog-ng]v1.5.23 crashes

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 03:34:32PM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know since when and what I did before, but my syslog-ng crashes.
> I the core dump I saw, it prints a message "io.c: sockaddr2info():
> Unsupported address family %i.\n" where %i is 27749. But the value of %i
> changes with every crash.
> 
> The crashes occures in line 1032 of the file io.c. But the error is
> before. The addr parameter in do_read_line (sources.c:61) is a invalid
> value for an address family. I couldn't find the piont, where the
> incorrect address family is set.

this is a kernel bug. there was a fix posted on this mailing list and DaveM
promised me to include it in 2.4.21.

The workarounds in syslog-ng 1.5.24 and libol 0.3.6 supposedly fix the
problem.

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