[ircd-ratbox] why irc.dks.ca split today / ratbox bug? (fwd)

[Aaron Sethman]

Hmm..could you do a bt full?

Aaron

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Mike Jackson wrote:

> FYI -
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:35:54 -0500 (EST)
> From: Mike Jackson
> To: admins at ca-efnet.org
> Subject: why irc.dks.ca split today / ratbox bug?
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Just a little bit of clarification as to why DKS split today.  It appears
> I have stumbled upon a nasty little bug in ratbox.
>
> Here is what syslog told me:
>
> Jul 31 01:06:47 <local4.notice> irc ircd[351]: REHASH tklines From zodiack[mike at oblivion.dks.ca]
> Jul 31 01:06:55 <local4.notice> irc ircd[351]: REHASH tdlines From zodiack[mike at oblivion.dks.ca]
> Jul 31 01:07:00 <local4.notice> irc ircd[351]: REHASH rejectcache From zodiack[mike at oblivion.dks.ca]
> Jul 31 01:07:20 <kern.info> irc /kernel: pid 351 (ircd), uid 100: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
>
> Here is the backtrace info from gdb:
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x8072da8 in auth_error (auth=0x89aef60) at s_auth.c:251
> #1  0x8073394 in auth_connect_callback (fd=484, error=4, data=0x89aef60) at s_auth.c:497
> #2  0x807456c in comm_connect_callback (fd=484, status=4) at s_bsd.c:686
> #3  0x80746b7 in comm_connect_tryconnect (fd=484, notused=0x0) at s_bsd.c:796
> #4  0x8074c27 in comm_select (delay=0) at s_bsd_kqueue.c:278
> #5  0x8065e9a in io_loop () at ircd.c:344
> #6  0x8066848 in main (argc=0, argv=0xbfbffb94) at ircd.c:774
>
> Here is the ratbox code:
>
> s_auth.c:251         sendheader(auth->client, REPORT_FAIL_ID);
> s_auth.c:497         auth_error(auth);
> s_bsd.c:686          hdl(fd, status, fd_table[fd].connect.data);
> s_bsd.c:796          comm_connect_callback(fd, COMM_ERR_CONNECT);
> s_bsd_kqueue.c:278   hdl(fd, F->write_data);
> ircd.c:344           comm_select(0);
> ircd.c:774           io_loop();
>
>
> Now I'm no ratbox coder by any means but I'm assuming this is not normal
> and has something to do with I/O, the KQUEUE routines and the file
> descriptor table.
>
> I'm going to investigate this with the fl and the rest of the ratbox
> development team and see what we can dig up.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   - Mike
>
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