From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 14:12:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7A6106564A for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:12:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from megatron.madpilot.net (megatron.madpilot.net [88.149.173.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F05108FC19 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:12:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by megatron.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB99130C08; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:12:55 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at madpilot.net Received: from megatron.madpilot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (megatron.madpilot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id p1ytUIzJ7i3m; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:12:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from anakin.madpilot.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by megatron.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:12:52 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <497C7363.2040808@madpilot.net> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:12:51 +0100 From: Guido Falsi User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Friesen References: <497B626B.2020500@splip.com> In-Reply-To: <497B626B.2020500@splip.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, jarrod@netleader.com.au Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: nagios-3.0.6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:12:57 -0000 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