[syslog-ng] Problem with Syslog-NG 3.2.5 on Aix 7.1 ... It coredumps..

[Sandor Geller]

I had the same issue using Sun Studio for building 64-bit binaries on
Solaris. Could you apply this patch to eventlog, rebuild it and retry?

--- src/evtstr.c-orig   2010-12-03 14:44:25.000000000 +0100
+++ src/evtstr.c        2010-12-03 14:45:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
 #include <malloc.h>
 #endif
+#include <alloca.h>

 /* event string handling */

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Jonathan Kaufman
<jkaufman at footlocker.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>        I am hoping someone out there has a working installation of 3.2.5 on
> Aix 7.1 and can help me get mine working.
>
>
> I am currently trying to use a self-compiled version of 3.2.5 on an Power7
> CPU Aix 7.1 TL1 SP3 box. I was able to get Syslog-NG to compile on Aix 7.1
> after I mangled a new libtool release into the source so it would compile
> shared objects.
>
> Unfortunately, when I start syslog-ng it core dumps repeatedly.
>
>
> Core dumps start filling up /sftw/syslog-ng/var and a ps -ef  shows only
> the "supervising syslog-ng process".
>
> a dbx syslog-ng gives this output...
>
> [root at mlwitt71]:[/sftw/syslog-ng/sbin] > dbx syslog-ng
> Type 'help' for help.
> [using memory image in core.10092546.01150742]
> reading symbolic information ...
>
> Segmentation fault in alloca at 0xd2970930 ($t1)
> 0xd2970930 (alloca+0x8) 800c0000         lwz   r0,0x0(r12)
> (dbx) where
> alloca() at 0xd2970930
> evt_str_append_escape_bs() at 0xd2970520
> evtrec_format_plain() at 0xd296feb4
> evt_format() at 0xd2970104
> msg_event_send(e = 0x00000005), line 166 in "messages.c"
> main_loop_run(cfg = (nil)), line 148 in "main.c"
> main(argc = 1, argv = 0x2ff227f4), line 470 in "main.c"
> (dbx)
>
>
> I have also tried using the Syslog-ng rpm's from perzl & Bull. Both of them
> core dump as well, so I went back to trying to get a self-compiled release
> to work as I have some control over that.
>
> I used IBM VisualAge C/C++ v11.1.0.9 as the C compiler.
>
> [root at mlwitt71]:[/sftw/syslog-ng/sbin] > lslpp -L | grep vac
>  vac.Bnd                   11.1.0.1    C     F    XL C for AIX Media
> Defined
>  vac.C                     11.1.0.9    C     F    IBM XL C Compiler
>  vac.aix53.lib             11.1.0.9    C     F    XL C for AIX Libraries
> for AIX
>  vac.include               11.1.0.9    C     F    IBM XL C Compiler
> Include
>  vac.lib                   11.1.0.9    C     F    XL C for AIX Libraries
>  vacpp.Bnd                 11.1.0.1    C     F    IBM XL C/C++ Media
> Defined
>  vacpp.cmp.aix53.lib       11.1.0.9    C     F    IBM XL C/C++ Libraries
> for AIX
>  vacpp.cmp.core            11.1.0.9    C     F    IBM XL C/C++ Compiler
>  vacpp.cmp.include         11.1.0.9    C     F    IBM XL C/C++ Compiler
> Include
>  vacpp.cmp.lib             11.1.0.9    C     F    IBM XL C/C++ Libraries
>  vacpp.cmp.rte             11.1.0.9    C     F    IBM XL C/C++ Compiler
>  vacpp.cmp.tools           11.1.0.9    C     F    IBM XL C/C++ Tools
>  vacpp.tnb                 11.1.0.1    C     F    IBM XL C/C++ Evaluation
>
> I mangled libtool 2.4.2 into the source directories so it would
> detect/compile shared libraries (it wouldn't otherwise).
>
> I compiled and installed eventlog 0.2.12 in /sftw/syslog-ng, I also
> compiled OpenSSL 1.0.0g into it staticly.
>
> I am initially trying to start it using the default configuration files.
>
> There were no errors during the compile, and a syslog-ng -s did NOT
> coredump.
>
> I believe syslog-ng is using the following libraries and their locations
> (dynamically linked).
>
> [root at mlwitt71]:[/sftw/syslog-ng/sbin] > ldd syslog-ng
> syslog-ng needs:
>         /sftw/syslog-ng/lib/libsyslog-ng.a(libsyslog-ng.so.0)
>         /usr/lib/libnsl.a(shr.o)
>         /opt/freeware/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so
>         /opt/freeware/lib/libglib-2.0.so
>         /usr/lib/libpthread.a(shr_xpg5.o)
>         /usr/lib/libc.a(shr.o)
>         /sftw/syslog-ng/lib/libevtlog.a(libevtlog.so.0)
>         /usr/lib/librtl.a(shr.o)
>         /opt/freeware/lib/libpcre.a(libpcre.so.0)
>         /usr/lib/libthread.a(shr.o)
>         /usr/lib/libpthreads_compat.a(shr.o)
>         /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_xpg5.o)
>         /usr/lib/libtli.a(shr.o)
>         /opt/freeware/lib/libglib-2.0.a(libglib-2.0.so.0)
>         /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.1)
>         /usr/lib/libiconv.a(shr4.o)
>         /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr_comm.o)
>         /unix
>         /usr/lib/libcrypt.a(shr.o)
>         /usr/lib/libpthreads.a(shr.o)
>         /usr/lib/libc.a(pse.o)
>
> and the configure command when compiling from source was:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/sftw/syslog-ng \
>        --disable-spoof-source \
>        --enable-dynamic-linking \
>        --enable-debug \
>        --enable-ssl
>
> and I added -g to the CFLAGS
>
> I am using glib2-2.28.6-1 from perzl as well..
> I plan on removing the --enable-debug if I can get it working
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Jonathan Kaufman
>
>
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