FreeBSD Port: nagios-3.0.6
Guido Falsi
mad at madpilot.net
Sun Jan 25 06:12:57 PST 2009
Karl Friesen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just to report that nagios-3.0.6 when build with the EMBEDDED_PERL
> option dies with a segmentation fault when perl-5.8.9 is installed. It
> runs fine when run from the command line with the -v or -s options (to
> check the configs), but dies when one attempts to run "for real" in the
> foreground or as a daemon.
>
> I built a version with debugging symbols and ran it under gdb and it
> said that there nagios received a segmentation fault from perl. There
> was something in there about the perl taint check as well.
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't save the exact message that I saw. The software
> is in use on a production machine. If you really need the exact
> message, I can take the machine out of service to reproduce the error,
> but I don't want to if I don't have to.
>
> I saw one other report of this problem on the net
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/59163
>
> Sorry for the sketchy report,
I had a similar problem, with nagios segfaulting and dumping core after
perl upgrade.
It ended up being a problem with 64 bit ints in perl. I changed the
setting inadvertedly. Anyway I had to rebuild both perl and the ports
segfaulting.
--
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>
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