Re: [Nagios-devel] Unexplained nagios crashes
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:46 am
On 27 Aug 2007, at 12:19, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
> My guess would be that it's an off-by-one somewhere in the code that
> only triggers under some very special circumstances.
agreed - we thought it might have been hardware first, but that has
now been changed to no effect.
> It's not much to go on, but if the crash happens again, do check
> if it's the same chain of events for the same host that triggers it.
We do have another core file that appears to have the same issue;
I'll go through it again and see what I can find out.
> If it is, we'll have something to work with. Until the crash can be
> reliably reproduced, any attempts at fixing it will unfortunately
> just be blank shots in the dark.
This is part of the problem we have had; we cannot currently even
guess at what the cause might be to reproduce it
> You could try upgrading to the very latest nagios-2-x-bugfixes
> off of cvs. It has quite a few bugfixes. Looking at commit-messages,
> I can't really say if this particular bug has been fixed though.
We are upgrading from 2.8 to 2.9 tonight, but as you have said there
is nothing in any of the recent commit messages that looks even
vaguely related.
>
> Does your in-house neb in any way muck about with the passive
> service check result lists?
No, nothing at all.
Duncs
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