[collectd] Segmentation fault using perl plugin

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi Justo,

Sorry, for the delayed reply - I somehow lost sight of your e-mail :-/

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Justo Alonso wrote:
>     http://www.capphire.org/collectd/collectd.core.tgz, is a tar-gziped file
> with the collectd.conf file, MyPlugin.pm (is the plugin example), the core
> file and the collectd.out (with enable debug and logfile plugin with debug
> config).

Sorry, I need perl.so and the collectd binary as well - else I cannot debug it
myself.

> #1  0x4020143f in Perl_call_sv () from
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
[...]
> #4  0x401db516 in perl_log (level=7, msg=0xbfffd1b0 "pagesize_g = 4096;
> CONFIG_HZ = 100;") at perl.c:1025
> #5  0x0804fb38 in plugin_log (level=7, format=0x401c6500 "pagesize_g = %li;
> CONFIG_HZ = %i;") at plugin.c:718
> #6  0x401c5404 in ps_init () at processes.c:396

As you can see from stack frames 1, 4 and 6, the segfault happens when trying
to call the log function of some Perl plugin from ps_init. This might be a
problem related to concurrency...

>   I compile it on 2 machines, the first is a Suse 8.2 professional edition
> (perl 5.8.0, kernel 2.4.20) and the second a Suse Enterprises 9.3 SP3 (perl
> 5.8.3 and kernel 2.6.5).

... Did you run collectd on a multi-core machine? Can you reproduce the
segfault any time you run collectd? Does it always happen at the same position
every time?

TIA,
Sebastian

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