[rrd-developers] MRTG , Segmentation Fault , After re-installing perl .

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

 	Hello Kevin ,

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, kevin brintnall wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:16:58AM -0900, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
>>> A back-trace would be very helpful.  Is the crashing program generating a
>>> core file?
>>
>>  	No core file found on file system .  system may be configured not to
>> allow creation of one ,  Not sure ,  checking ,  the system IS configure to NOT
>> allow a core file to be produced ,  I'll try seeing if this will create one ,
>> Fyi ,  It does not produce a core file .
>
> If it's dying on SIGSEGV, it should produce a CORE file.. Make sure that
> it's not chdir() to somewhere it cannot write.

 	I am not finding anyplace a chdir like request is made in the configs or 
in the mrtg script .  Tho when I ran the gdb (see below) it was as root .  And 
all previous attempts at running it were as root .  There should have been no 
difficulties in writing a file when run as root .  The /proc entitiy that needed 
changing was mofidied ,  hopefully correctly .

>>  	Can you help with getting 'gdb' to allow ...
>>
>> # gdb /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg-ORIG /var/www/htdocs/router2cgi/cfg/to-rtr01.cfg
>> Excess command line arguments ignored.
>> (/var/www/htdocs/router2cgi/cfg/to-rtr01.cfg)
>> GNU gdb 6.6
>> ...snip...
>
> This ought to work...
>
>  % gdb /usr/local/bin/perl
>  (gdb) set args /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg-ORIG /var/www/ht... blahblah
>  (gdb) run
>
> After it catches SIGSEGV:
>
>  (gdb) bt

 	Thank you ,  that did it .  JimL

# gdb /usr/local/bin/perl
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This GDB was configured as "i486-slackware-linux"...
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(gdb) set args /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg-ORIG 
/var/www/htdocs/router2cgi/cfg/to-rtr01.cfg
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg-ORIG 
/var/www/htdocs/router2cgi/cfg/to-rtr01.cfg
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1210280256 (LWP 20444)]
Error while reading shared library symbols:
Cannot find new threads: generic error

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1210280256 (LWP 20444)]
0xb7e3822b in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0xb7e3822b in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0xb7e0a281 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0xb7e28d91 in vsnprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0xb7d552ac in sprintf_alloc (fmt=0xb7d615c2 "[%lli]RRA[%s][%lu]DS[%s]") at rrd_info.c:34
#4  0xb7d5a193 in write_to_rras (rrd=0xbffd7a24, rrd_file=0x89c2c88, rra_step_cnt=<value optimized out>, rra_begin=2760,
     current_time=1234999805, skip_update=0x89ce7c8, pcdp_summary=0xbffd7a80) at rrd_update.c:1944
#5  0xb7d5ad1f in process_arg (step_start=0x89ccfa0 "1234999805", rrd=0xbffd7a24, rrd_file=0x89c2c88, rra_begin=81864,
     current_time=0xbffd7a58, current_time_usec=0xbffd7a54, pdp_temp=0x81520c0, pdp_new=0x89ce7f0, rra_step_cnt=0x89ce6f0,
     updvals=0x87fcce0, tmpl_idx=0x88748d8, tmpl_cnt=3, pcdp_summary=0xbffd7a80, version=3, skip_update=0x89ce7c8,
     schedule_smooth=0xbffd7a50) at rrd_update.c:819
#6  0xb7d5be8a in _rrd_update (filename=0x89ce730 "/var/www/htdocs/router2cgi/graphs/to-rtr01/to-rtr01_1.rrd", tmplt=0x0, argc=1,
     argv=0x8873d80, pcdp_summary=0x887c9d0) at rrd_update.c:497
#7  0xb7d5c4a1 in rrd_update_v (argc=2, argv=0x8873d78) at rrd_update.c:362
#8  0xb7d690cf in XS_RRDs_updatev () from /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i686-linux//auto/RRDs/RRDs.so
#9  0x0809ed60 in Perl_pp_entersub ()
#10 0x0809d638 in Perl_runops_standard ()
#11 0x08099fa4 in perl_run ()
#12 0x0805ed7f in main ()
(gdb)


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