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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:12:51 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        Karl Friesen <krf@splip.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, jarrod@netleader.com.au
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: nagios-3.0.6
Message-ID:  <497C7363.2040808@madpilot.net>
In-Reply-To: <497B626B.2020500@splip.com>
References:  <497B626B.2020500@splip.com>

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Karl Friesen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just to report that nagios-3.0.6 when build with the EMBEDDED_PERL 
> option dies with a segmentation fault when perl-5.8.9 is installed.  It 
> runs fine when run from the command line with the -v or -s options (to 
> check the configs), but dies when one attempts to run "for real" in the 
> foreground or as a daemon.
> 
> I built a version with debugging symbols and ran it under gdb and it 
> said that there nagios received a segmentation fault from perl.  There 
> was something in there about the perl taint check as well.
> 
> Unfortunately, I didn't save the exact message that I saw.  The software 
> is in use on a production machine.  If you really need the exact 
> message, I can take the machine out of service to reproduce the error, 
> but I don't want to if I don't have to.
> 
> I saw one other report of this problem on the net
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/59163
> 
> Sorry for the sketchy report,

I had a similar problem, with nagios segfaulting and dumping core after 
perl upgrade.

It ended up being a problem with 64 bit ints in perl. I changed the 
setting inadvertedly. Anyway I had to rebuild both perl and the ports 
segfaulting.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>



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