Perhaps you have access to some fancy tools, like purify, insight etc that might help debug this. It sounds like some kind of heap corruption.
M Matt Richards wrote: > Well, I hate to say this, but I am still having this problem (svn 657 > now). However, I am getting closer. When cf-serverd core dumps, I get > a corresponding "Fatal cfengine error: memory failure" on the client. > I am not sure which one dies first, but I am guessing the client > (cf-agent). I don't understand why it would get a memory failure, the > code is just doing a regular malloc, and the machines (random, never > the same one twice) in question have plenty of memory. I will dig > (pulling my soxs up) more, but it is just odd. > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Mark Burgess <mark.burg...@iu.hio.no> wrote: >> Matt, >> >> I am glad to hear that this no longer troubling you, but I am unable to >> trace the source >> of a problem. If you see anything else, let me know. >> >> Matt Richards wrote: >>> Okay, after working on this one for a long time, I did noticed that >>> the connection structure is partially corrupted when cf-serverd cores. >>> It always dies in the same spot in openssl: >>> >>> MD_Update(&m,&(state[st_idx]),MD_DIGEST_LENGTH/2-k); >>> >>> The MD_DIGEST_LENGTH/2-k become negative, and when passed to a >>> unsigned long, it becomes a huge negative number. Tracing though >>> OpenSSL got me very discouraged as it tends to get very tedious and >>> complicated, so I decided to trace back the cfengine code. One thing I >>> did notice in common with the core dumps was that the conn structure >>> seemed corrupted: > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
