hobbitd_client crashing on FreeBSD 4.11

["Greg Larkin" <glarkin (at) sourcehosting.net>]

Hi there,

I am monitoring a FreeBSD 4.11 box with Hobbit, and it works greats except
for an occasional hobbitd_client process crash.  I have been noticing this
because I'll see a purple icon on my monitoring web page.  This shows up in
the /var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log file on the FBSD box:

2006-03-05 12:01:12 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating
2006-03-05 12:01:18 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating
2006-03-07 18:16:05 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating
2006-03-07 18:16:10 Worker process died with exit code 134, terminating

It looks to me that the hobbitd_client process is respawned, because all I
have to do is reset the display with a command like:

./bb 127.0.0.1 "drop my.host.name hobbitd_client"

That gets rid of the purple icon.

I found a core file for the process, but it doesn't yield much:

-su-2.05b$ pwd
/home/hobbit/server/tmp
-su-2.05b$ gdb ../bin/hobbitd_client hobbitd_client.core 
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This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...Deprecated bfd_read
called at
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c line
2627 in elfstab_build_psymtabs
Deprecated bfd_read called at
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/gdb/../../../../contrib/gdb/gdb/dbxread.c line
933 in fill_symbuf
 
Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Abort trap.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.4...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done.
#0  0x280c7748 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
(gdb) bt
#0  0x280c7748 in kill () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#1  0x2810903e in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#2  0x80551a6 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57
#3  0xbfbfffac in ?? ()
#4  0x804d8b9 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfbfeadc) at hobbitd_client.c:853
(gdb)


How serious is this problem?  Should I just recompile hobbitd_client with
debugging symbols so I can get a better backtrace?  Is there anything else I
should do?

Thank you,
Greg

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