[hobbit] core in hobbitd_alert, clientupdate

[David Gore]

Backtrace on the core, this is the latest snapshot.  I do not have the 
patience to fully test clientupdate, so I will assume it is broken 
otherwise and that it may be fixed in the final version.  Regardless 
this is for hobbitd_alert:

[hobbit at hobbit server]$ gdb bin/hobbitd_alert tmp/core.29742
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warning: exec file is newer than core file.
Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done.
Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x4f2000
Core was generated by `hobbitd_alert 
--checkpoint-file=/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk --checkpoint-'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.

warning: svr4_current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: 
Input/output error

Reading symbols from /lib/libpcre.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libpcre.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
#0  0x004f2402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x004f2402 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0x00538159 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x005396e3 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x0805a0f3 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0x0054dc46 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6  0x00553282 in fprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7  0x08049dd7 in save_checkpoint (filename=0x9878098 
"/home/hobbit/server/tmp/alert.chk")
    at hobbitd_alert.c:242
#8  0x0804a9ea in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffff
) at hobbitd_alert.c:502
(gdb) q

The cores match up with these entries in page.log:

2006-07-23 14:50:45 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating
2006-07-23 20:02:22 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating
2006-07-24 11:51:27 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating

And these in hobbitlaunch.log

2006-07-23 14:50:45 Task bbpage terminated, status 1
2006-07-23 20:02:22 Task bbpage terminated, status 1
2006-07-24 11:51:27 Task bbpage terminated, status 1

Server is Fedora Core 5.