As promised, I've just logged in to the server, to check if the daemon was
still on. I found a 33M core dump; I'm enclosing the backtrace here.
Have a nice week-end,
lorenzo
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Core was generated by `rsyslogd -c3'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
[New process 31084]
[New process 31086]
[New process 31085]
[New process 31083]
[New process 31082]
#0 0x00002b67305cdef5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb)
Thread 5 (process 31082):
#0 0x00002b6730664f12 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x000000000040db33 in mainThread () at syslogd.c:2585
#2 0x000000000040ed0c in realMain (argc=<value optimized out>,
argv=<value optimized out>) at syslogd.c:3483
#3 0x00002b67305ba1a6 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4 0x0000000000409f79 in _start ()
Thread 4 (process 31083):
#0 0x00002b672ff7cfad in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x0000000000431a13 in wtiWorker (pThis=0x685200) at wti.c:403
#2 0x00000000004301da in wtpWorker (arg=0x685200) at wtp.c:419
#3 0x00002b672ff78fc7 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#4 0x00002b673066b7cd in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Thread 3 (process 31085):
#0 0x00002b6730664f12 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00002b6730d0a9dd in runInput (pThrd=<value optimized out>)
at imuxsock.c:278
#2 0x0000000000441eef in thrdStarter (arg=0x6a4830) at ../threads.c:139
#3 0x00002b672ff78fc7 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#4 0x00002b673066b7cd in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Thread 2 (process 31086):
#0 0x00002b672ff7f7eb in read () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x00002b6730f0f1bf in klogLogKMsg () at linux.c:449
#2 0x00002b6730f0e554 in runInput (pThrd=0x6a8340) at imklog.c:214
#3 0x0000000000441eef in thrdStarter (arg=0x6a8340) at ../threads.c:139
#4 0x00002b672ff78fc7 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#5 0x00002b673066b7cd in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
Thread 1 (process 31084):
#0 0x00002b67305cdef5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00002b67305cf413 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x0000000000422019 in sigsegvHdlr (signum=6) at debug.c:758
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 0x00002b67305cdef5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x00002b67305cf413 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#6 0x00002b67305c6dc9 in __assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6
#7 0x000000000041bad6 in msgDestruct (ppThis=0x68e728) at msg.c:274
#8 0x0000000000441824 in actionCallAction (pAction=0x68e6b0,
pMsg=0x2aaaac0014c0) at ../action.c:741
#9 0x000000000040afb7 in processMsgDoActions (pData=0x68e6b0,
pParam=0x41000e90) at syslogd.c:1117
#10 0x000000000041c938 in llExecFunc (pThis=0x68e510,
pFunc=0x40af60 <processMsgDoActions>, pParam=0x41000e90)
at linkedlist.c:391
#11 0x000000000040ab19 in msgConsumer (notNeeded=<value optimized out>,
pUsr=0x2aaaac0014c0) at syslogd.c:1160
#12 0x000000000043ae97 in queueConsumerReg (pThis=0x68eab0, pWti=0x6a2730,
iCancelStateSave=<value optimized out>) at queue.c:1574
#13 0x0000000000431970 in wtiWorker (pThis=0x6a2730) at wti.c:413
#14 0x00000000004301da in wtpWorker (arg=0x6a2730) at wtp.c:419
#15 0x00002b672ff78fc7 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#16 0x00002b673066b7cd in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#17 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
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