Re: Amanda 3.5.1 - "ERROR: amcheck-device terminated with signal 11"

Also

8 lines like this in the kern.log:

    Oct  9 21:05:58 eclogite kernel: [650814.343315] amcheck-device[5089]: segfault at 0 ip
    00007f94159617c6 sp 00007fff61039da8 error 4 in libc-2.23.so[7f94158d6000+1c0000]


On 10/10/20 12:29 AM, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 22:22:47 -0400, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
>> both servers, I'm getting this error (ERROR: amcheck-device
>> terminated with signal 11). When I ran the amcheck before swapping
> amcheck-device is a Perl program, so it's a little bit impressive to be
> triggering a SEGV of the process :( .
>
> Do you get any coredump-related kernel messages in your syslog file when
> the process crashes?
>
>
>> Fri Oct 09 21:57:09.795469021 2020: pid 24239: thd-0xc2e600: amcheck-device: NEO200x48: updating state
>> Fri Oct 09 21:57:09.802340532 2020: pid 24239: thd-0xc2e600:
>> amcheck-device: warning: Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq
>> (==) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.22.1/Amanda/Taper/Scan/oldest.pm
>> line 102.
>> Fri Oct 09 21:57:09.802537511 2020: pid 24239: thd-0xc2e600:
>> amcheck-device: warning: Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq
>> (==) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.22.1/Amanda/Taper/Scan/oldest.pm
>> line 102.
>> Fri Oct 09 21:57:09.802622523 2020: pid 24239: thd-0xc2e600:
>> amcheck-device: warning: Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq
>> (==) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.22.1/Amanda/Taper/Scan/oldest.pm
>> line 102.
> I am guessing this "uninitialized value" warning is not directly causing
> the crash, but those log message might possibly hint as to where in the
> program execution had reached just prior to the crash.
>
> Can you post the output of
>
>    $ sed -n '99,$p;105q' /usr/local/share/perl/5.22.1/Amanda/Taper/Scan/oldest.pm
> ?
>
> (In other words, what's line 102 in that file on your system, with a
> few lines of context?)
>
>
> Do you see those warning lines in the log files from a successfully
> amcheck run (i.e. from a few days ago)?  What do those logs show after
> the warning lines (or the "updating state" line)?
>
>
> 						Nathan
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Nathan Stratton Treadway  -  [email protected]  -  Mid-Atlantic region
> Ray Ontko & Co.  -  Software consulting services  -   http://www.ontko.com/
>   GPG Key: http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt   ID: 1023D/ECFB6239
>   Key fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C  0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239

-- 
---------------

Chris Hoogendyk

-
    O__  ---- Systems Administrator, Retired
   c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geosciences Departments
  (*) \(*) -- 315 Morrill Science Center III
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

<[email protected]>

---------------

Erdös 4