[JDEV] Jserver Core Dump - redhat 5.2

[Dan]

At 02:17 PM 5/16/00 -0600, you wrote:

I've just got Redhat 6.2 so I'm going to upgrade the box now and see if
this makes a difference. Btw, do you know of any sys/mem requirements for
the Jabber env?

Thnx,

Dan.

>Hmmh.  Most of our testing on Red Hat-based machines has been on 6.0 or
>better; it's possible that there's some sort of incompatibility in your C
>library or something.  (I tried to start it up on a RH 5.2 box once and it
>didn't work, and I wound up reformatting that box anyway for other reasons.)
>
>Do you have a full postmortem stack backtrace?  You can get this by doing
>"gdb /usr/local/jabber/bin/jserver core" (adjust path as appropriate), then
>issuing the "bt" command to gdb.
>
>					Eric 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan [mailto:diablo at flatland.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 1:11 PM
>> To: jdev at jabber.org
>> Subject: RE: [JDEV] Jserver Core Dump - redhat 5.2
>> 
>> 
>> At 01:57 PM 5/16/00 -0600, you wrote:
>> >What's the executable that's running?  And what version of 
>> pth are you
>> >using?
>> 
>> I'm using pth version 1.3.5 (17-Apr-2000). 
>> 
>> The executable? Do you mean on the client? I'm using Jabba - 
>> win32 client
>> (v0.9.0) by Keith Minkle. But at the moment the Jserver daemon is core
>> dumping without any connections being made. It's trying to connect to
>> update.jabber.org:5269 and falling down the same hole.
>> 
>> Thnx,
>> 
>> Dan.
>> 
>> >This sounds suspiciously like a problem I had with 
>> icq-transport where an
>> >additional argument was not being passed to (a newer version 
>> of) pth in
>> >certain event creation calls, that wound up causing an 
>> unexpected coredump.
>> >However, we fixed that issue in jserver, icq-transport, aimtrans, and
>> >yahootrans (or so I seem to recall), so this could be something else.
>> >
>> >					Eric
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Dan [mailto:diablo at flatland.com]
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 12:49 PM
>> >> To: jdev at jabber.org
>> >> Subject: Re: [JDEV] Jserver Core Dump - redhat 5.2
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> At 06:08 PM 5/15/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Further into looking at the jserver core dump: I've traced 
>> the area to
>> >> "libetherx-1.0/src/tstream.c::_tstream_connect" and the 
>> >> following section
>> >> of code.
>> >> 
>> >> The code seems to make it to -       adns_beforeselect(ads, 
>> >> &maxfd, &rfds,
>> >> &wfds, &efds, &tv, &tvbuf,0);
>> >> 
>> >> but here a core dump occurs. Btw, I'm using adns-0.8.
>> >> 
>> >> I've used the cmd line adnstest tool & adnshost and they work 
>> >> fine.?? It's
>> >> crashing out whenever it tries a lookup I guess, but I'm 
>> not sure why.
>> >> 
>> >> Anyone have any ideas? 
>> >> 
>> >> Dan.
>> >> 
>> >> >May I ask why you are using the RC? 1.0 is final. 
>> >> >
>> >> >I'm not sure if this is related or not though. I recommend 
>> >> going by the 
>> >> >default jserver.xml configuration that comes with the server 
>> >> rather than use 
>> >> >the HOWTO. I'll be updating that shortly for changes in 1.0.
>> >> >
>> >> >On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 02:57:47PM -0700, Dan wrote:
>> >> >> Hi.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Have just installed jabber 1.0 rc onto my linux box as per 
>> >> the "Server
>> >> >> mini-How to" doc. Install was fine and I have Jserver 
>> >> running in debug
>> >> >> mode. Using "Jabba" win32 client I've created two users 
>> >> and am trying find
>> >> >> one user to add to the others roster.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> However, whenever I select 'Jabber User Directory' and 
>> >> search I get a core
>> >> >> dump. The following is the last line of server output
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> debug/tstream:339 _tstream_connect: ADNS[username:5269]
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> -- In fact if I try any communication other than 
>> >> registering I get a seg
>> >> >> fault --
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> I'm going to look around my system and re-read the jabber 
>> >> docs, but was
>> >> >> wondering if anyone has encountered this? Perhaps there's some
>> >> >> permissioning prob?
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Any help would be great:
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> My machine details are:
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Server Platform details:
>> >> >> jabber rc 1.0 
>> >> >> redhat linux 5.2
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Client:
>> >> >> Jabba - win32 client (v0.9.0)
>> >> >> by Keith Minkle.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Thanks,  Dan.
>> >> >> 
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>> >> >
>> >> >-- 
>> >> >Eliot Landrum
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>> >> >
>> >> >-Soli Deo Gloria-
>> >> >
>> >> 
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