[rrd-developers] Re: 1.0.8 RRDs perl coredump?

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today you sent me mail regarding [rrd-developers] 1.0.8 RRDs perl coredump?:

*> Suggestions?
*> 
*> irricana:31> make test
*> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-openbsd -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t
*> t/base..............dubious
*>         Test returned status 0 (wstat 139, 0x8b)
*>         test program seems to have generated a core
*> DIED. FAILED tests 2-5
*>         Failed 4/5 tests, 20.00% okay
*> Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
*> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*> t/base.t          0   139     5    4  80.00%  2-5
*> Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 4/5 subtests failed, 20.00% okay.
*> *** Error code 2
*> 
*> Stop in /home/weingart/work/local/rrd/rrdtool-1.0.8/perl-shared.
*> irricana:32> ls
*> ./              Makefile.PL     RRDs.c          blib/           rrdpl.dsp
*> ./             Makefile.old    RRDs.o          ntmake.pl       rrdpl.dsw
*> MANIFEST        README          RRDs.pm         perl.core       t/
*> Makefile        RRDs.bs         RRDs.xs         pm_to_blib
*> irricana:33> file perl.core
*> perl.core: OpenBSD/i386 core from 'perl'
*> irricana:34> gdb perl perl.core
*> GNU gdb 4.16.1
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*> 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-unknown-openbsd2.5"...
*> Core was generated by `perl'.
*> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
*> Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld.so...done.
*> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.0.1...done.
*> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.21.1...done.
*> Reading symbols from /home/weingart/work/local/rrd/rrdtool-1.0.8/perl-shared/blib/arch/auto/RRDs/RRDs.so...done.
*> #0  0x4014501a in init_scanner (argc=1, argv=0xefbfd760) at parsetime.c:372
*> 372             sc_len += strlen(*argv++);
*> (gdb) p argv
*> $1 = (char **) 0xefbfd760
*> (gdb) p *argv
*> $2 = 0x0
*> (gdb) where
*> #0  0x4014501a in init_scanner (argc=1, argv=0xefbfd760) at parsetime.c:372
*> #1  0x40145d11 in parsetime (tspec=0x0, ptv=0xefbfd7b0) at parsetime.c:792
*> #2  0x4014661f in rrd_create (argc=13, argv=0xcdd80) at rrd_create.c:64
*> #3  0x401426a7 in XS_RRDs_create (cv=0xc8258) at RRDs.xs:84
*> #4  0x36ab2 in Perl_pp_entersub ()
*> #5  0x63e02 in Perl_runops_standard ()
*> #6  0x392d in perl_run ()
*> #7  0x1773 in main ()
*> (gdb) 

aaargh ... I love it ... unfortunately I can not recreate this problem on
solaris ... could you trie to reproduce this on the command line ... put a
print statement before the create call in perl and try to execute with
rrdtool ...

cheers
tobi
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