RAMON segfault

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Desmond,
   This is usually a problem with corrupted files,
but if other ra() clients can read them, then it
is definitely much more interesting than that.

   If you can share the file, I'll debug the problem.
If that is not an option, then if running ranonymize()
is possible, and the problem is still there, that
would be a great approach, and I can take a look.

   If that is not possible, then we can turn you into
a gdb god in just a few simple steps.

   Do any of those possibilities work?

Carter



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Desmond Irvine [mailto:desmond.irvine at sheridanc.on.ca] 
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 2:15 PM
> To: carter at qosient.com
> Cc: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: RAMON segfault
> 
> 
> FYI - I just downloaded and tried the beta.38 client with 
> similar results.
> 
> Desmond Irvine wrote:
> > I've been running ramon against hourly argus data files and most of 
> > the
> > time it works just fine.  However, once or twice a day it 
> segfaults on me:
> > 
> > # ramon -n -r 2003.01.13-10.gz -M TopN
> > Segmentation fault
> > 
> > I've tried both the beta.37 version of ramon as well as the one that
> > came with argus version I'm using.  For what it's worth ra seems to 
> > process the file without any complaints.
> > 
> > This is all running on a debian linux box.  Here are the versions of
> > things involved:
> > 
> > Linux cerberus 2.4.20 #1 SMP Tue Dec 24 11:43:14 EST 2002 
> i686 unknown 
> > Argus Version 2.0.6.beta.2 Ramon Version 2.0.6.beta.2
> > Ramon Version 2.0.6.beta.37
> > Ra Version 2.0.6.beta.37
> > 
> > running under gdb against 3 different files that fail gives:
> > 
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 
> ArgusIndexRecord 
> > (argus=0xb3fef3c, hdrs=0xbfffe440) at ./argus_util.c:477
> > 477              switch (far->type) {
> > (gdb)
> > 
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 
> ArgusIndexRecord 
> > (argus=0x95ecf44, hdrs=0xbfffe440) at ./argus_util.c:477
> > 477              switch (far->type) {
> > 
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 
> ArgusIndexRecord 
> > (argus=0x99eff34, hdrs=0xbfffe440) at ./argus_util.c:477
> > 477              switch (far->type) {
> > 
> > I'm not sure where to go from here.
> > 
> > Thanks, Desmond.
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Desmond Irvine              Security Analyst, Information Technology
> Sheridan College            Phone: 905-845-9430 x2035
> 1430 Trafalgar Road         Fax: 905-815-4011
> Oakville, ON  L6H 2L1       EMail: desmond.irvine at sheridanc.on.ca
> 
>