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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi All,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am running Hobbit 4.2.0 on a number of Sun servers and recently the hobbitd_client daemon has been crashing and leaving core files around.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I ran gdb according to </FONT><A HREF="http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html#bugreport"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/known-issues.html#bugreport</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> and it came back with:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">hobbit@hbt0:/opt/hobbit/server>gdb bin/hobbitd_client tmp/core</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">GNU gdb 6.6</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#0 0xfee25687 in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">(gdb) bt</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#0 0xfee25687 in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#1 0xfee22dee in thr_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#2 0xfedd11bb in raise () from /lib/libc.so.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#3 0xfedb15d9 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#4 0x08067172 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#5 0xfee24a4f in __sighndlr () from /lib/libc.so.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#6 0xfee1ae72 in call_user_handler () from /lib/libc.so.1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#7 <signal handler called></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#8 0x08063ef9 in get_ostype (osname=0x806c28d "") at misc.c:43</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">#9 0x0805b320 in main (argc=1, argv=0x80464ac) at hobbitd_client.c:1766</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The really bizarre thing is that it only crashes when one particular machine connects to it and sends data. Other Hobbit clients connect in and transfer thir core data over with no issues, it's only this one Sun Ultra 60 that causes a problem.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any ideas where I might start looking?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">|\/|artin</FONT>
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