Re: slapd crashing "randomly?"

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:25 PM -0400 Daniel Henninger 
<daniel@ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Been a while, but I finally caught a core dump.  Of course, I'm not
> entirely sure why there's so few useful symbols showing since I compiled
> it with debugging symbols and didn't strip it.  =/  Anyway, the
> information I got from it is interesting:
>
> (gdb) bt
> # 0  0x000b4694 in ?? ()
> # 1  0x000e175c in avl_delete ()
> # 2  0x000b4c48 in bdb_idl_cache_put ()
> # 3  0x000b5930 in bdb_idl_fetch_key ()
> # 4  0x000b796c in bdb_key_read ()
> # 5  0x000b30b0 in bdb_filter_candidates ()
> # 6  0x000b3a28 in ?? ()
> # 7  0x000b3a28 in ?? ()
> Backtrace stopped: previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> (gdb)
>
> Is it possible I just have a busted version of berkeley db?!  What
> version are you all using?  (I guess it's Oracle DB now...)  We are using
> version 4.2.52.  Built with --enable-compat185.

Hi Daniel,

What does "file slapd" say?  In general, "make install" will strip the 
symbols from slapd even if you built it with debugging etc.

As for BDB 4.2.52, you must apply the patches from Oracle as well, 
otherwise it is known to corrupt.

--Quanah


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