Still problems with Nagios 2.9 and NDO under Solaris 8

[Andreas Ericsson]

Masopust, Christian wrote:
>>> i'm still having problems with ndoutils under Solaris 9.
>>>  
>>> When i'm activating it (event_broker_options=-1) in nagios.cfg
>>> my nagios won't start anymore !!   it always stops with a 
>> segmentation fault!
>>>  
>>> here's the traceback of the dump:
>>>  
>>> (gdb) bt
>>> #0  0xff1b3288 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
>>> #1  0xff10bcbc in ndo_escape_buffer (buffer=Cannot access 
>> memory at address 0x44
>>> ) at io.c:424
>>> #2  0xff104788 in ndomod_write_object_config 
>> (config_type=1) at ndomod.c:3183
>>> #3  0xff103d30 in ndomod_write_config (config_type=1) at 
>> ndomod.c:2999
>>> #4  0xff103b44 in ndomod_broker_data (event_type=7, 
>> data=0xffbef954) at ndomod.c:2940
>>> #5  0x0001d038 in neb_make_callbacks ()
>>> #6  0x0001ca38 in broker_program_state ()
>>> #7  0x0001b67c in main ()
>>>
>>> is there anyone who could shed a little lite on this ??
>>>  
>> Not really. The program receives a SIGSEGV in 
>> ndo_escape_buffer because it gets
>> passed an invalid pointer (memory address 0x44 is not 
>> available to programs).
>>
>> Why it gets passed a bogus address on Solaris is a mystery to me, as
>> contact_struct->name is located at relative address 0 within 
>> the contact_struct
>> data structure (unless your compiler re-arranges it ofcourse).
>>
> Hello Andreas,
> 
> that's real funny.... i tried yesterday the same sources on a RHEL 4
> system and it works perfectly !
> 
> and also funny is that the SIGSEGV on Solaris 8 is there whether i
> compile Nagios and NDO with gcc (4.1.2) or Sun-Studio 11 ...
> 
> isn't there anyone who also has Nagios running on Solaris 8 ??  :-))
> 

Probably, but it's unlikely that many of those run NDOUtils compiled
with Solaris' compiler.

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