Xymon 4.3.11 released 🔗 link

Hi,

I have just released version 4.3.11 of Xymon. This release fixes a 
critical bug, which has caused crashes and other unwanted behaviour of 
the xymond daemon.

Upgrading your Xymon server is recommended.


Full list of changes:

* Fix wrong file permissions when installing
* Linux client: Fix handling of root filesystem when mounted on
   "/dev/root"
* trends webpage: Fix case where hostname disappears after zoom.
* FreeBSD client: Memory patch for FreeBSD 8.0+
* xymond_alert: Fix problem with UNMATCHED rules triggering when
   there are actual recipients, but their alerts are suppressed due
   to a REPEAT setting not having expired.
* xymond_rrd: Dont crash if called with an empty status/data message
* xymond_channel: Report cause when channel-child exits/crashes
* xymongen: Geneate an overview page with only reds (like non-green)
* xymongen: Optionally define env. variable BOARDFILTER to select
   hosts/tests included in the generated pages
* links: Add pdf, docx and odt as known document formats
* Fix potential crashes after an alert cookie expired
* Fix potential crash after deleting/renaming a host
* Speedup loading of the hosts.cfg file, noticeable with very
   large hosts.cfg files (100.000+ hosts)


Currently only the source archive is available. Binary packages will 
show up in a couple of days.


Regards,
Henrik

Hi Matt,

absolutely correct - and an embarassingly silly bug. This patch should 
cure it - I'll have to do a 4.3.12 release for this, so you may want to 
wait for that.

Thanks for reporting it.

Regards,
Henrik


On 22-04-2013 23:03, Matt Goebel wrote:

   Hopefuly I have done this correctly.  Let me know if I need to
do something else.

This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.10".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>;...
Reading symbols from /data/src/xymon/xymon-4.3.11/xymongen/xymongen...done.
[New LWP 1]
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1 (LWP 1)]
Core was generated by `./xymongen'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
#0  0xfeecebd4 in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0xfeecebd4 in _lwp_kill () from /lib/libc.so.1
#1  0xfee67bb8 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.1
#2  0xfee429f8 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.1
#3  0x00031cc0 in sigsegv_handler (signum=11) at sig.c:57
#4  <signal handler called>
#5  0xfee32d50 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.1
#6  0xfee9f4a0 in _ndoprnt () from /lib/libc.so.1
#7  0xfeea1870 in sprintf () from /lib/libc.so.1
#8  0x0001b754 in load_state (sumhead=0x62a30 <dispsums>) at loaddata.c:512
#9  0x00016228 in main (argc=1, argv=0xffbffccc) at xymongen.c:592

Thanks,
Matt

And now a bit of polka music by "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrik_St=F8rner?="

Hi Matt,

if you could provide me with a trace of where it dumps core, then I
would very much like to track it down.

You need the 'gdb' tool to get the stacktrace, see
http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/known-issues.html#bugreport


Thanks,
Henrik


On 22-04-2013 17:38, Matt Goebel wrote:

Hi,

    Not sure where I should post this, but I upgraded to 4.3.11 today
on Solaris 10 sparc and everything works great except for xymongen
which coredumps.  I ended up using the 4.3.10 binary for xymongen
to get everything working again.

Thanks,
Matt

And now a bit of polka music by "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrik_St=F8rner?="

On 23-04-2013 07:44, Henrik Størner wrote:

Hmm ... how many mistakes can you make in one line of code? Too many, it 
seems - at least this version compiles.

Patch on top of 4.3.11.


Regards,
Henrik

Hello Henrik,

to evaluate a replacement for the discontinued "Big Brother Professional Edition" I installed Xymon 4.3.11 on a Solaris 10 SPARC and experienced the same as Matt Goebel did  in April: a crashing xymongen. In this thread you announced to fix this with release 4.3.12.
Do you already have a ETA for this release?
Is there a workaround for this issue (apart from compiling release 4.3.10 and using the older binary)?

Thank you.

Kind regards

Bernd Frick

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