Nagios SIGSEGVs

[Andreas Ericsson]

Greg Vickers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I downloaded Nagios 2.0b1 onto a brand new install of RHEL3 and built it 
> OK. It was working great, running as expected, web interface and 
> everything. Then I rebooted the server to check that nagios started OK 
> and that the iptables rules worked to allow NSCA passive service checks 
> in, as I'm not overly familiar with RHEL3.
> 
> Nagios didn't start - got a pretty red FAILED message on the console. So 
> I log on and have a lookie - running "/etc/init.d/nagios start" reports 
> no lock file found. Running "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.etc" fails silently.
> Running "strace -f -o nagios.strace /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.etc" shows up a SEGSEGV as one of the last 
> entries.
> 
> I've tried reconfiguring and recompiling and the exe is the same size as 
> the one that is installed and it does the same thing when I run that new 
> exe...
> 
> Am I missing something obvious or do I have a ghost in the machine?
> 

2.0 is beta. If you're going to run it, you need to run the CVS code to 
make sure you've got the latest fixes.

AFAICR there was an issue like this when the config was constructed in a 
certain way (segfault at load-time) a couple of months back.

> If you're interested, here is a copy of the strace output (only up for 2 
> weeks) at this URL: 
> https://fileshare.qut.edu.au/public/vickersg/nagios.strace.gz
> 
> TIA,

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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