Texpire started segfaulting on me a couple days ago, right
at the very beginning of the program. Today, fetch also started
segfaulting. It's working now, but I just wanted to let people know in
case it happens to anyone else.
Purging and reinstalling leafnode (1.4-10) did not help, but deleting
/var/spool/news (230MB) and reinstalling fixed it. I suspect one of the
configuration files got corrupted, but I'm not sure. (I'll have to
re-download all the news, but a lot of it was supposed to have expired
anyway.)
The strace from both programs looks similar:
TEXPIRE:
execve("/usr/sbin/texpire", ["texpire"], [/* 38 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x805298c
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10882, ...}) = 0
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open("/var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo", O_RDONLY) = 3
stat("/var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=7168, ...})
= 0
brk(0x8056000) = 0x8056000
open("/var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo", O_RDONLY) = 4
read(4, "Very 0 1 1 -x-\nalabama 18 17 26"..., 7168) = 7168
close(4) = 0
brk(0x8057000) = 0x8057000
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
FETCH:
execve("/usr/sbin/fetch", ["fetch"], [/* 46 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8054c7c
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[193 lines deleted]
lseek(7, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
getdents(7, /* 2 entries */, 3933) = 28
stat(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
stat("..", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=1024, ...}) = 0
lseek(7, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 1024
getdents(7, /* 0 entries */, 3933) = 0
close(7) = 0
open("/var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo", O_RDONLY) = 7
stat("/var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=7168, ...})
= 0
open("/var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo", O_RDONLY) = 8
read(8, "Very 0 1 1 -x-\nalabama 18 17 26"..., 7168) = 7168
close(8) = 0
brk(0x805b000) = 0x805b000
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
I wondered if the /var/lib/leafnode/groupinfo file could be the culprit,
but I don't have it anymore. I pulled a copy from yesterday morning's
backup and fed it to leafnode, but no segfault.
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