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Help! Fresh Nagios Core installation. When I try to start Nagios there an error "bus error". There are no messages in the nagios.debug (debug level is set to -1)

#uname -a
FreeBSD backup00.mydomain 10.3-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p7 #0: Thu Aug 11 18:38:15 UTC 2016 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

#pkg info
nagios-plugins-2.1.1_5,1 Plugins for Nagios
nagios4-4.2.0 Powerful network monitoring system

#root@backup00:~ # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nagios start
Performing sanity check of nagios configuration: Bus error
FAILED

Nagios Core 4.2.0
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Last Modified: 08-01-2016
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Reading configuration data...
Read main config file okay...
Bus error
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nagios: WARNING: failed precmd routine for nagios

root@backup00:~ # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nagios status
nagios is not running.

FreeBSD and Nagios have a bit of a history of bus errors according to Google. Honestly you're probably better off filing this on the GitGub Issue tracker for Core, since we are primarily a CentOS and RHEL shop.

https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/issues