[rsyslog] abort case

[Lorenzo M. Catucci]

It just crashed under drd (sending both direct and through the list, it 
should get to you!). I've restarted under helgrind, just for the sake of 
not wasting the upcoming night...

Hear you tomorrow! Yours,

	lorenzo

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Rainer Gerhards wrote:

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