Andreas Metzler said at 28/02/2007 19:37:
On 2007-02-28 Ronny Adsetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Package: exim4 Version: 4.50-8sarge2 Severity: normalI've recently, as of early this morning, started to see segfaults from exim4. I'm seeing this in kern.log:Feb 28 03:07:02 nakor kernel: exim4[4242]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000002a96bbb220 rsp 0000007fbfffed58 error 4[...] Are you running some special kernel? The regular vanilla Debian kernels do not report SEGFAULTS of user level programs by syslog afaik.
$ uname -a Linux nakor 2.6.8-12-em64t-p4-smp #1 SMP Thu Dec 7 19:12:51 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux This is the standard Sarge kernel. Well as standard as amd64 got for Sarge.
I might be misreading the message, with exim triggereing a segfault in the kernel. Anyway if you did not make any recent changes to the system software and I had to make guess I would point at either a coruupted harddisk or hardware breakage.
I have a tcpdump of traffic that causes the segfault (attached) to this log entry: Feb 28 19:08:41 nakor kernel: exim4[28068]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000002a96bbb220 rsp 0000007fbfffd358 error 4 My first thought was hardware failure too, but it's not looking that way at the moment. The segfaults are too regular in their timing. I'll see if the same happens at 20:08. Ronny -- Ronny Adsetts Technical Director Amazing Internet Ltd, London t: +44 20 8607 9535 f: +44 20 8607 9536 w: www.amazinginternet.com
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