Re: exiting on signal 11: Segmentation fault problem with 2.6.2

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Massimiliano Panichi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we get this error messages from ftpd
>
> May 19 07:44:45 vetrine01 ftpd[31022]: exiting on signal 11:
> Segmentation fault
>
> We have a redhat with wu-ftpd 2.6.2 and often we get these messages.
> In attach I put the messages and an "strace -f" of the master ftp server
> deamon.
> It is running  standalone and not undex inetd.
>
> Any suggestions ? Is it a bug ?

A segfault is always a bug (or bad ram/hardware).

When does this occur? What is happending when it crashes? Can you rebuild
wu-ftpd with debugging symbols (set CFLAGS to include -ggdb and NOT any -O
optimizations)? Then Start the daemon, and attach to the process with gdb
(attach <pid>). See where it crashes.

If nothing else get it to dump a core (check your limits for
corefilesize). Then run gdb on the core and do a backtrace.

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