Premature end of script headers: bb-histlog.sh

Asif Iqbal vadud3 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 26 20:57:26 CET 2010 

I am getting the following error when I was trying to access the port
history of the client cer1cc-012.clientcare.example.net

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was
unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, systems at qwestip.net and
inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might
have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/2.0.63 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.7d DAV/2 Server at
apa-xymon-01.ip.example.net Port 80


[Fri Mar 26 19:43:11 2010] [error] [client 208.47.0.94] Premature end
of script headers: bb-histlog.sh, referer:
http://apa-xymon-01.ip.example.net/hobbit-cgi/bb-hist.sh?HISTFILE=cer1cc-012.clientcare.example.net.ports&ENTRIES=50&IP=10.240.66.212&DISPLAYNAME=cer1cc-012.clientcare.example.net


(root)@apa-xymon-01:/etc/apache2# REQUEST_METHOD=GET
SCRIPT_NAME=bb-histlog.sh
QUERY_STRING="HOST=cer1cc-012.clientcare.example.net&SERVICE=ports&TIMEBUF=Wed_Mar_24_13:03:57_2010"
~hobbit/cgi-bin/bb-histlog.sh
Content-type: text/html

Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
(root)@apa-xymon-01:/etc/apache2# ls
core                      httpd-std.conf
httpd.conf.20100326       magic                     ssl.conf
highperformance-std.conf  httpd.conf                httpd.conf.orig
       mime.types                ssl.crt
highperformance.conf      httpd.conf-example        httpd.conf.small
       ssl-std.conf              ssl.key
(root)@apa-xymon-01:/etc/apache2# file core
core:		ELF 32-bit LSB core file 80386 Version 1, from 'hobbitsvc.cgi'
(root)@apa-xymon-01:/etc/apache2# gdb
GNU gdb 6.6
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.8".
(gdb) quit
(root)@apa-xymon-01:/etc/apache2# gdb ~hobbit/server/bin/hobbitsvc.cgi core
GNU gdb 6.6
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.8"...
Reading symbols from /lib/libpcre.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libpcre.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libsocket.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libsocket.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/librt.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/librt.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libaio.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libaio.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/libmd.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libmd.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/ld.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/ld.so.1
Core was generated by `/home/hobbit/server/bin/hobbitsvc.cgi
--env=/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserve'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0xfed64fa1 in realfree () from /lib/libc.so.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0xfed64fa1 in realfree () from /lib/libc.so.1
#1  0xfed655bf in cleanfree () from /lib/libc.so.1
#2  0xfed64adb in _malloc_unlocked () from /lib/libc.so.1
#3  0xfed64a04 in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.1
#4  0x08065762 in xmalloc (size=12) at memory.c:119
#5  0x08059748 in expand_env (s=0x8071c75 "4.2.3") at environ.c:296
#6  0x08059ce7 in xgetenv (name=0x8072aca "HOBBITDREL") at environ.c:165
#7  0x0805cd62 in headfoot (output=0x8087590, template=0x8072cc9
"histlog", pagepath=0x8072c2a "", head_or_foot=0x8072c23 "header",
bgcolor=0)
    at headfoot.c:1114
#8  0x0805e0af in generate_html_log (hostname=0x808eb10
"cer1cc-012.clientcare.example.net",
    displayname=0x808eb10 "cer1cc-012.clientcare.example.net",
service=0x80881f8 "ports", ip=0x8092718 "10.240.66.212", color=0,
    sender=0x80a64b8 "10.240.66.212", flags=0x80714c9 "", logtime=0,
timesincechange=0x8047b80 "0.00 minutes",
    firstline=0x808a650 "green Wed Mar 24 13:03:55 GMT 2010 - Ports OK",
    restofmsg=0x80a70be "&green ssh (found 1, req. 1 or
more)\n\nActive Internet connections (servers and established)\nProto
Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address", ' ' <repeats 11 times>, "Foreign Address
        State      \ntcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:"..., acktime=0,
ackmsg=0x0, acklist=0x0,
    disabletime=0, dismsg=0x0, is_history=1, wantserviceid=0,
htmlfmt=0, hobbitd=0,
    multigraphs=0x806d548
",disk,inode,qtree,quotas,snapshot,TblSpace,if_load,",
    linktoclient=0x80885a8
"bb-histlog.sh?CLIENT=cer1cc-012.clientcare.example.net&amp8TIMEBUF=1269435836",
nkprio=0x0, nkttgroup=0x0,
    nkttextra=0x0, output=0x8087590) at htmllog.c:150
#9  0x0805475a in do_request () at hobbitsvc.c:421
#10 0x08055037 in main (argc=1296651320, argv=0x8047c84) at hobbitsvc.c:518
(gdb)

I noticed it says --env=/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserve instead of
hobbitserver.cfg

-- 
Asif Iqbal
PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

More information about the Xymon mailing list