OK, thanks to the help of Lorenzo Catucci, I was able to pinpoint one problem that can cause a race. I will write up the details soon, but this requires some time ;) I think I have a fix for the debian_lenny branch, you can pull it from git and also find it on its gitweb:
http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=commit;h=35673b12c42429786f6229f f9fcef7001a6b21ab No other branch has been patched so far. Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Biebl [mailto:bi...@debian.org] > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:03 PM > To: Rainer Gerhards > Cc: Juha Koho; 509...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#509292: rsyslog: random crashes with remote logging > > Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > Is there any chance we could try this with the current v3-stable? Or, > > better yet, with the current v4? The reason I ask is that I have run > > some valgrind/DRD tests today, and that reminded me that 3.18 had a > > couple of "not so nice" sync primitive handlings. They should not be > the > > issue, but it is pretty hard to use valgrind on that version. So I'll > > focus troubleshooting on v4. It may be that I will not be able to > > backport a fix, once I find it (but it is still too early to think > about > > the details ... let's find it first ;)). > > > > Latest v3-stable (3.20.3) is available from experimental [1]. > I could try to provide unofficial Debian packages for v4 for Juha, if > that helps > (but I currently only have a i386 to build these packages) > > Cheers, > Michael > > [1] http://packages.debian.org/experimental/rsyslog > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
