On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Kevin Grover <ke...@kevingrover.net> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Aaron Turner <synfina...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Not sure why, but sometimes svnserve segfaults when it runs via >> xinetd. It turns out to be highly repeatable for specific svn >> transactions/commands. Ie: >> >> svn merge -c 2454 . ../../branches/3.4/src >> >> causes the segfault, but another svn command works fine (I had just >> done a number of commits). I've seen it happen with svn update as >> well, so it doesn't seem specific to merge. >> >> Not really sure why, but here is what I'm getting in /var/log/messages: >> >> Apr 18 04:51:59 lagavulin kernel: svnserve[28484]: segfault at >> b786f2fc ip b7503814 sp bfd4b6e0 error 4 in >> libsasl2.so.2.0.22[b74f4000+18000] >> Apr 18 04:51:59 lagavulin xinetd[2797]: EXIT: svn signal=11 pid=28484 >> duration=0(sec) >> >> Note the same command works find when svnserve runs as a daemon. I am >> using SASL auth, but 9/10 times it works just fine. >> >> client is OSX/x86 10.6.3, svn v1.6.9 and v1.6.11 >> server is Linux (CentOS 5.3/x86), svn v1.6.9 >> >> Anyways, problem has seem to gone away after switching to daemon mode, >> so I don't need anyone to fix my problem, but figured a bug report was >> warranted. >> >> -- >> Aaron Turner >> http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic >> http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & >> Windows >> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary >> Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. >> -- Benjamin Franklin >> "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero" >> > > I would look at the user the svnserve process is being run as. Are the > permissions correct to access to repo files? Is it the same user that > runs the process in deamon mode? This could explain why read only ops > would work, but write ops may not. > > However, whether its a permission thing or not, there should be a > meaningful error message, not a core dump. It would be worth it to > the community to figure out what's really happening. >
It's not a permission thing. I can commit just fine (usually). Actually, it crashes more often during read operations, then writes. I've used both subversion binary packages & compiled it via src.rpm so library missmatch issues shouldn't be an issue. Honestly, as long as it's working as a standalone daemon and it doesn't start crashing on me, I really have better things to do then re-compile with debug and get a core dump. Obviously, if the problem comes back then I'll see about compiling again. -- Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero"
