[rsyslog] abort case

Rainer Gerhards rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com
Wed Oct 1 19:02:15 CEST 2008


As I thought... stupid error. Please pull helgrind branch again and give it another try ;)

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:52 PM
> To: Lorenzo M. Catucci
> Cc: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] abort case
> 
> [going back to the list with Lorenzo's permission]
> 
> Hi Lorenzo,
> 
> finally... I did not realize that the queue is running in direct mode,
> but now I saw it and can reproduce a failure. That should make things
> much better. Anyhow, it is very unusual that the main message queue
> runs in direct mode, so I guess it is a side-effect of a config file.
> In those files you sent me, I don't see it, but I see a .d directory is
> included. May there be something? In any case, I hope I will be able to
> fix the bug now that I can reproduce it.
> 
> Looks like a productive day today :)
> 
> Thanks for your persistence,
> Rainer
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lorenzo M. Catucci [mailto:lorenzo at sancho.ccd.uniroma2.it]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 1:46 PM
> > To: Rainer Gerhards
> > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] abort case
> >
> > Sorry for the delay, I've just run helgrind's head, bau as you can
> see,
> > it
> > crashed almost as soon as I started.
> >
> > The log is enclosed; I'm now checking-out head and will retry.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > 	lorenzo
> >
> > RG> I have created a new version with one slight change, to be found
> in
> > RG> the helgrind branch.
> > RG>
> > RG> There is also a new valgrind tool called drd inside the valgrind
> > RG> development tree. I think you already downloaded that tree. If
> so,
> > RG> could you please replace
> > RG>
> > RG> Valgrind --tool=helgrind .. rsyslogd ...
> > RG>
> > RG> with
> > RG>
> > RG> Valgrind --tool=drd .. rsyslogd ...
> > RG>
> > RG> Drd does an even better job than helgrind. I also changed the
> > source
> > RG> to remove some debug-system related warning, which otherwise
> would
> > RG> clutter up the error message. But unfortunately, in my lab I did
> > not
> > RG> find any more problems, except for the small change I mentioned.
> > But
> > RG> that one affects program termination (and in a very subtle way),
> so
> > it
> > RG> should not change anything for you. I'd still be interested in a
> > new
> > RG> run, including debug info, from you.
> > RG>
> >
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