Sudden rash of "logfetch" crashes in libc on RHEL 6 Linux?!?

Yeah, that was a nasty bug :/  4.3.18 is around the corner, so I haven't
backported that to the previous 4.3.17 package, but could.

ignore/trigger should fix the problem for now. Would you be up for testing
the most recent 4.3.18 package in
http://terabithia.org/rpms/xymon/testing/el6/ on a box and see if that
runs fine? (Just to validate there's not something else going on here
causing the crash...)


Regards,

-jc


On Tue, October 21, 2014 4:12 am, Greg Earle wrote:

On Oct 21, 2014, at 13:58 PM +1100, Jeremy Laidman
<user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On 21 October 2014 10:01, Greg Earle <user-8f45ae7a27f3@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Starting about 45 minutes ago as I type this, all of a sudden, 5 of
my machines running Xymon 4.3.17 have gotten afflicted with a
mysterious
'disease' - "logfetch" is endlessly crashing on all of them.

I wonder if it's the same logfetch bug that's been lingering at least 3
years:

http://lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-August/038009.html

I believe you're probably right, I had found postings from as far back
as December 2011 to this list describing the same sort of crashing.

You might try out the work-around mentioned there to see if it helps.

My work-around was to back-out the two seemingly-harmless "ignore" lines
I had just added to my "client-config.cfg" file!  I would try the
memmove()
twiddle (if I can't solve it some other way) but then again I'm using the
Terabithia pre-cooked RPMs, so ...

P.S. Why am I getting these "isn't signed with proper key" messages as
well?

Maybe this can help:

http://lists.leap-cf.org/pipermail/leaplist/2012-December/000836.html

Ah, interesting, thanks for that.  Not sure I'm too excited about going
'round adding 2 lines to 100+ "/etc/abrt/abrt.conf" files tho  ;)

	- Greg