[Xymon] xymonnet crashing after upgrade to 4.3.15

[Johan Sjöberg]

Hi.

Just wanted to report that I installed the patch yesterday, and have not seen any crash since then.

/Johan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Gavin
> Stone-Tolcher
> Sent: den 6 februari 2014 05:23
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymonnet crashing after upgrade to 4.3.15
> 
> Just reporting that I too have seen 1 x core dump from xymonnet on our test
> xymon setup since upgrading to 4.3.15 on Monday. Relevant gdb output
> follows:
> 
> [xymon at aztec server]$ gdb bin/xymonnet tmp/core.30031 GNU gdb (GDB)
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2-60.el6_4.1) ....
> ....
> Core was generated by `xymonnet --report --ping --ping-tasks=5 --test-
> untagged --concurrency=64 --cont'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
> ....
>  (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000003cfea32925 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #1  0x0000003cfea34105 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> #2  0x0000000000426433 in sigsegv_handler (signum=<value optimized out>)
> at sig.c:57
> #3  <signal handler called>
> #4  0x000000000042b07c in xmh_find_item (host=<value optimized out>,
> item=XMH_FLAG_HTTP_HEADER_MATCH) at loadhosts.c:226
> #5  0x000000000040f84e in send_content_results (httptest=<value optimized
> out>, host=<value optimized out>, nonetpage=<value optimized out>,
> contenttestname=0x967030 "cont",
>     failgoesclear=1) at httpresult.c:456
> #6  0x000000000040a26d in main (argc=14, argv=0x7fffaf67cce8) at
> xymonnet.c:2484
> 
> I have also applied the supplied patch and will report any issues.
> 
> Cheers,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Johan
> Sjöberg
> Sent: Wednesday, 5 February 2014 8:00 PM
> To: henrik at hswn.dk
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymonnet crashing after upgrade to 4.3.15
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
> > Sent: den 5 februari 2014 09:50
> > To: Johan Sjöberg
> > Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> > Subject: RE: [Xymon] xymonnet crashing after upgrade to 4.3.15
> >
> > Den 2014-02-05 9:24, Johan Sjöberg skrev:
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] could you try this
> > >> patch, please?
> > >
> > > Thanks. Can I just copy the new xymonnet binary after compiling, and
> > > skip the make install?
> >
> > Yes, that will work fine.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Henrik
> 
> Ok, I have applied it on one of our machines. I'll wait and see if it makes any
> difference. The crashes are not too frequent, it has happened 3-4 times on
> either server after the upgrade.
> 
> /Johan
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