On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:31 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 05:14:40PM +0100, Vincent Blondel wrote: > > > > I'm not sure about the cause though, does it happen every time you run > > > mailwrapper, or only under load? > > > > sendmail_enable is defined to "NONE" so I can suppose I do not use > > mailwrapper. > > > > How can I know it > > You are clearly running it, because of: > > > > > Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: > > > > x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > > > > = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 > > > > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 > > > > current process = 14294 (mailwrapper) > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > If you don't know about mailwrapper running, that suggests you're not > using the system for email processing and it's the nightly admin > scripts which are sending mail automatically overnight.
No I just forgot the existence of mailwrapper but as I said it in my last mail /etc/mail/mailer.conf points to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail on my machine because qmail is serving SMTP on my web server. Concerning nightly scripts, I receive them in my mailbox every day/week/month. > > I suspect that your mailwrapper executable may be corrupt. The kernel > is supposed to handle this, but you might have discovered a new and > better way to corrupt a binary to get it past the existing checks :-) Do not forget my original post concerned a kernel panic on process httpd so maybe problem does not come from mailwrapper ? > > Try to send an email to e.g. root on the system and see if it triggers > the crash. "echo Hello |mailx -s "Hello" root" works perfectly. > > If it does, then save a copy of the mailwrapper binary (i.e. don't > immediately "fix" it by reinstalling) and make it available so we can > see what is wrong with it. but I still get a new crash this morning at 09h20 AM and when I try to get kgdb running I get hundreds of lines with this ... kgdb: kvm_read: invalid address (0x0) ... > > Kris Vincent _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
