[hobbit] bbtest-net crashing 8-(

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 08:27:03AM -0400, Langford, Kenneth wrote:
> I am running version 4.1.2p1 of Hobbit on SuSE Enterprise Linux 9 SP2
> X86_64.  It is unpredictable on when it is going to crash.  It runs for
> days with no problem then crashes every five minutes for an hour then
> may for days again before it crashes.  Is there a fix for this and I
> just missed it when looking through the archives?? The gdb output is
> below:
> #3  <signal handler called>
> #4  0x0000000000418aa9 in end_query (channel=0x554be0, query=0x555930, status=12, abuf=0x0,
>     alen=0) at ares_process.c:627
> #5  0x0000000000419541 in ares_process (channel=0x554be0, read_fds=0x7fbfffcc60,

Looks suspiciously much like a known bug in the C-ARES library that
Hobbit uses. The workaround is to run bbtest-net with the "--no-ares"
option.


Regards,
Henrik