server segfault

[Russell Fulton]

I had an crash form argus beta 7 last night:


bash-2.04$ gdb bin/argus_bpf data/argus_bpf.core 
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This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...
Core was generated by `argus_bpf'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.4...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done.
#0  ArgusGetQueueCount (queue=0x0) at ./ArgusUtil.c:268
268        return (queue->count);
(gdb) where
#0  ArgusGetQueueCount (queue=0x0) at ./ArgusUtil.c:268
#1  0x804d8ac in ArgusGenerateStatusMar () at ./ArgusOutput.c:213
#2  0x804d97a in ArgusGenerateClosingMar (status=16) at ./ArgusOutput.c:239
#3  0x804e957 in ArgusSendClosingMar (fd=8, status=16) at ./ArgusOutput.c:856
#4  0x804e88a in ArgusOutputCleanUp (param=0) at ./ArgusOutput.c:796
#5  0x804df60 in ArgusOutputProcess () at ./ArgusOutput.c:441
#6  0x804d635 in ArgusInitOutput () at ./ArgusOutput.c:132
#7  0x804a50d in main (argc=7, argv=0xbfbffb80) at ./argus.c:376
(gdb) l
263
264     #ifdef ARGUSDEBUG
265        ArgusDebug (6, "ArgusGetQueueCount (0x%x) returning %d\n", queue, queue->count);
266     #endif
267
268        return (queue->count);
269     }
270
271     void
272     ArgusPushQueue(struct ArgusQueueStruct *queue, struct ArgusFlowStruct *obj)
(gdb) p queue
$1 = (struct ArgusQueueStruct *) 0x0

Sorry I can't eaily use argusbugs because the machine cant send mail 
directly to the net.

Platform Free BSD 4.2


Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer
The University of Auckland,  New Zealand