While it may not be explicitly related in the spirit of "other
things to look at", two weeks ago on 4.62 I noticed one of my systems
segfaulting under very strange circumstances that I'd never seen before in
the 6 years I've been working with Exim.
I eventually traced it down to a corrupt index in an SQLite database
that is used by a perl script we use to log certain items.
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@???
> [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On Behalf Of Marc Perkel
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 3:14 PM
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [exim] Exim Segfault Error
>
> UPDATE - checked the other servers and getting the same
> segfaults there too. But they aren't locking up. S - it is Exim.
>
> Running on FC5 with 64 bit kernel. What can I do to help
> track this down?
>
> Marc Perkel wrote:
> > I don't know if this is an Exim problem, hardware, or a
> kernel problem.
> > But Exim is what's crashing, has locked up the server
> twice, and it's
> > always at the same location. Riunning Exim 4.63. I tried
> cocompiling
> > and reinstalled. Running on Fedora Core 5 with the latest upgrades,
> > except for a custom kernel to fix a motherboard related problem.
> >
> > Just put a new server online trying out the new AMD AM2
> processor. I
> > compiled a custom kernel because the regular Fedora Core kernels
> > aren't yet compatible with my Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard
> using the nVidia chipset.
> >
> > I compiled 2.6.18rc6 and got segfault errors. So I tried
> the 2.6.17.13
> > kernel and same thing. About every 20 minutes or so I get
> one of these.
> >
> > Sep 11 12:05:18 pascal kernel: exim[19840]: segfault at
> > 0000000000000000 rip 0000003f53e73ee0 rsp 00007fff9e561d18 error 4
> >
> > At one point the server locked up. Before I put it online I did
> > several days of memory testing with no errors. I believe
> the Exim code
> > is solid as it has been running flawlessly on all my other servers.
> >
> > It's probably hardware or some incompatibility but I'm not
> sure where
> > to start looking. Trying to understand what this error
> means. What is
> > Error 4? How do I track this down?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
>
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