RAMON segfault

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Desmond,
   If you can deposit it to ftp://qosient.com/incoming
and send me mail when its there, that would be great.

   Yes I was afraid ranonymize would fix the problem,
so I'm glad that we can do it this way.  The process
for debugging is not bad, but I don't have time to
get into it right now (I have a meeting).  So, I'll
send mail when I have a better idea of what's up.

Thanks!!!

Carter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Desmond Irvine [mailto:desmond.irvine at sheridanc.on.ca] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: Carter Bullard
> Cc: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: RAMON segfault
> 
> 
> Carter Bullard wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> The file was fairly big so I tried using ra in conjunction 
> with the -t 
> and -w options to produce a set of new smaller files to get the size 
> down and find the dataset that was the problem.  I was able to get a 
> reasonable size dataset that failed when running ramon 
> against it (the 
> others seemed to work), but running ranonymize against this 
> dataset made 
> the error disappear.  I'm willing to share the file and I've 
> gotten it 
> down to about 1 meg just let me know how to get it to you.  I also 
> wouldn't mind knowing what to do via gdb to hunt the error down.
> 
> Thanks, Desmond.
> 
> -- 
> Desmond Irvine              Security Analyst, Information Technology
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> 
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