report of a possible bug

[Richard Crane <craner (at) haskins.yale.edu>]

Xymon/Hobbit version 4.2.2

hobbitd_client crashed trying to process a file via the LOG option.


gdb output is:

xymon (at) litt:~/server> gdb bin/hobbitd_client tmp/core
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-suse-linux"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.0...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/libpcre.so.0
Reading symbols from /lib64/libc.so.6...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Core was generated by `hobbitd_client'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
#0  0x00002b7bb21ebb45 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00002b7bb21ebb45 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00002b7bb21ed0e0 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2  0x00000000004189c3 in sigsegv_handler (signum=<value optimized  
out>) at sig.c:57
#3  <signal handler called>
#4  0x000000000040e831 in scan_log (hinfo=<value optimized out>,  
classname=0x2b7bb251d457 "linux", logname=0x2b7bb252a7dd "/var/log/ 
list-rdiff-backups.out",
    logdata=0x2b7bb252a7fe "<...SKIPPED...>\n       10.5 GB\nTue  
Oct  7 03:46:09 2008         0 bytes", ' ' <repeats 11 times>, "10.5  
GB\nThu Oct  2 03:45:36 2008         0 bytes", ' ' <repeats 11  
times>, "10.5 GB\n./leigh/u1/:", ' ' <repeats 11 times>, "Time", ' '  
<repeats 23 times>, "S"..., section=<value optimized out>,
    summarybuf=0x62f0a0) at client_config.c:1404
#5  0x0000000000406256 in msgs_report (hostname=0x2b7bb251d44c  
"litt", clientclass=0x2b7bb251d457 "linux", os=<value optimized out>,  
hinfo=0x62b500,
    fromline=0x7ffff8d58dd0 "\nStatus message received from  
172.20.3.33\n", timestr=0x2b7bb251d47c "Tue Feb  3 11:40:18 EST  
2009", msgsstr=0x0) at hobbitd_client.c:876
#6  0x000000000040b19a in handle_linux_client  
(hostname=0x2b7bb251d44c "litt", clienttype=0x2b7bb251d457 "linux",  
os=OS_LINUX, hinfo=0x62b500,
    sender=<value optimized out>, timestamp=<value optimized out>,  
clientdata=0x2b7bb251d45d "client litt.linux linux\n[date") at client/ 
linux.c:60
#7  0x000000000040b95b in main (argc=<value optimized out>,  
argv=0x7ffff8d594f8) at hobbitd_client.c:1793
(gdb) quit

The file "/var/log/list-rdiff-backups.out" is a 170 line/10K ASCII file.




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