[Xymon] Sudden rash of "logfetch" crashes in libc on RHEL 6 Linux?!?

[J.C. Cleaver]

Yeah, that was a nasty bug :/  4.3.18 is around the corner, so I haven't
backported that to the previous 4.3.17 package, but could.

ignore/trigger should fix the problem for now. Would you be up for testing
the most recent 4.3.18 package in
http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/testing/el6/ on a box and see if that
runs fine? (Just to validate there's not something else going on here
causing the crash...)


Regards,

-jc



On Tue, October 21, 2014 4:12 am, Greg Earle wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2014, at 13:58 PM +1100, Jeremy Laidman
> <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On 21 October 2014 10:01, Greg Earle <earle at isolar.dyndns.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Starting about 45 minutes ago as I type this, all of a sudden, 5 of
>>> my machines running Xymon 4.3.17 have gotten afflicted with a
>>> mysterious
>>> 'disease' - "logfetch" is endlessly crashing on all of them.
>>
>> I wonder if it's the same logfetch bug that's been lingering at least 3
>> years:
>>
>> http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-August/038009.html
>
> I believe you're probably right, I had found postings from as far back
> as December 2011 to this list describing the same sort of crashing.
>
>> You might try out the work-around mentioned there to see if it helps.
>
> My work-around was to back-out the two seemingly-harmless "ignore" lines
> I had just added to my "client-config.cfg" file!  I would try the
> memmove()
> twiddle (if I can't solve it some other way) but then again I'm using the
> Terabithia pre-cooked RPMs, so ...
>
>>> P.S. Why am I getting these "isn't signed with proper key" messages as
>>> well?
>>
>> Maybe this can help:
>>
>> http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2012-December/000836.html
>
> Ah, interesting, thanks for that.  Not sure I'm too excited about going
> 'round adding 2 lines to 100+ "/etc/abrt/abrt.conf" files tho  ;)
>
> 	- Greg
>
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