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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