[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.3.0beta & ESX crashes

[Gergely Nagy]

Hendrik Visage <hvjunk at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Gergely Nagy <algernon at balabit.hu> wrote:
>> Hendrik Visage <hvjunk at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I've have a syslog-ng 3.3.0beta1 (at least the tag I get from the git
>>> build) that keeps falling over as it receives logs from ESX servers,
>>> this is on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.0 (Santiago)
>>> inside a VM. The dmesg output gives "interesting" responses:
>>
>> [...snip...]
>>
>> Would it be possible to compile syslog-ng with debugging symbols
>> (CFLAGS="-g" ./configure --enable-debug), and run it with --enable-core?
>
> Done.

A backtrace of the crash would then be useful to have. O:)

,----
| $ gdb -c /path/to/core-file /path/to/syslog-ng
| (gdb) bt full
`----

>> Other than that, I'd suggest either going back to 3.2, or trying the
>> latest version of 3.3 from git head, as there have been quite a lot of
>> stability fixes since beta1.
>
> Jul 15 15:47:09 tsysl01 syslog-ng[27978]: syslog-ng starting up;
> version='3.3.0beta1'
>
> Just "which beta1 is this that I've downloaded from githead???" comes to mind :(
>
> Perhaps embed a githead version for the git repositories ;)

That's a bit tricky, but you're right - it would be nice to have an
indication about what revision the binary was compiled from.

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