Re: snmpd dead but pid file exists

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Cameron Smith <[email protected]>wrote:

> snmpd quickly dies after start with the error on status:
> snmpd dead but pid file exists
>
> I have gone through the remove/reinstall and confirmed at latest for the
> distro I am on which works fine for all my other devices and virtual
> containers.
>
> Any info on how I can trouble shoot this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Here is info on my environment.
> The failures are on OpenVZ virtual containers running CentOS 5.5
>
> [root@test snmp]# yum list installed |grep snmp
> net-snmp.x86_64                       1:5.3.2.2-9.el5_5.1
>  installed
> net-snmp-libs.x86_64                  1:5.3.2.2-9.el5_5.1
>  installed
> net-snmp-utils.x86_64                 1:5.3.2.2-9.el5_5.1
>  installed
>
>
> Thanks!
> Cameron
>

As a followup here is a trace and you can see it is running into a floating
point exception:

Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.

0x00002aaaaaf4512d in var_hrproc () from /usr/lib64/libnetsnmpmibs.so.10

(gdb) bt

#0  0x00002aaaaaf4512d in var_hrproc () from /usr/lib64/libnetsnmpmibs.so.10

#1  0x00002aaaab4cb842 in netsnmp_old_api_helper () from
/usr/lib64/libnetsnmphelpers.so.10

#2  0x00002aaaab292fbe in netsnmp_call_handler () from
/usr/lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.10

#3  0x00002aaaab4c7241 in netsnmp_bulk_to_next_helper () from
/usr/lib64/libnetsnmphelpers.so.10

#4  0x00002aaaab292fbe in netsnmp_call_handler () from
/usr/lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.10

#5  0x00002aaaab28604f in handle_var_requests () from
/usr/lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.10

#6  0x00002aaaab2870d0 in handle_getnext_loop () from
/usr/lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.10

#7  0x00002aaaab288788 in netsnmp_handle_request () from
/usr/lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.10

#8  0x00002aaaab289387 in handle_snmp_packet () from
/usr/lib64/libnetsnmpagent.so.10

#9  0x00002aaaab925b3a in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libnetsnmp.so.10

#10 0x00002aaaab926b21 in _sess_read () from /usr/lib64/libnetsnmp.so.10

#11 0x00002aaaab9275a9 in snmp_sess_read () from /usr/lib64/libnetsnmp.so.10

#12 0x00002aaaab9275f3 in snmp_read () from /usr/lib64/libnetsnmp.so.10
#13 0x00002aaaaaab033a in main ()

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