[collectd] collectd 4.5.4 - segfault after setting time

[Florian Forster]

Hi Michael,

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:32:06PM +0200, Vogt, Michael wrote:
> I've a problem with collectd v4.5.4. If my machine boots up, the
> time/date settings are wrong, so i do this task:
> 
> -copy the timezone file to /etc/timezone
> -edit /etc/ntp.conf and /etc/conf.d/ntp-client
> -restart ntpd
> 
> After this step, collectd will crash:
> 
> May 14 16:30:32 localhost collectd[2219]: segfault at 1e4a0bf0 ip b7ea920b sp bfde3f04 error 4 in libc-2.6.1.so[b7e3e000+14b000]

oh, this is a weird problem. Can you reproduce it? If so, could you
create a stack backtrace or a core-file for us? For that, you need to
compile with
  ./configure CFLAGS="-O0 -g"
and then tell the system to write a core-file if the daemon crashes:
  ulimit -c unlimited

The core-file will be in the `BaseDir' after the daemon crashed -
`collectd -h' will tell you the default value for `BaseDir'.

You can then create a stack backtrace using the GNU debugger, gdb:
  gdb /path/to/collectd /path/to/core
  ...
  > bt full

> Strace 1:

Unfortunately, straces are not a lot of help when hunting down a
segmentation fault :(

Regards,
-octo
-- 
Florian octo Forster
Hacker in training
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