Re: Milter (spamassassin): to error state : spamassassin milter seems to randomly fail

[Joost van Baal]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:56:39AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 15), Joost van Baal said:
> > I am running spamass-milter 0.2, using the 0.2.0-1 Debian package,
> > from Don Armstrong, backported to Debian GNU/Linux woody.  About once
> > a day, the filter stops functioning:
> > 
> >  Aug 14 12:30:07 babbage sm-mta[10175]: h7EAQ7QE010175: Milter 
> > (spamassassin): timeout before data read
> >  Aug 14 12:30:07 babbage sm-mta[10175]: h7EAQ7QE010175: Milter 
> > (spamassassin): to error state
> >
> > What do other people do to work around this?  Just restart every so
> > many minutes, no matter what?  (Do I really have to do such an ugly
> > thing?)
> > 
> > Would it be useful if I give you more info on the precise
> > circumstances? If so, please be quick to ask: I am able to do some
> > testing on the machine now, but will no longer be able to within
> > about a week.  I have no experience whatsoever with the valgrind
> > memory debugger, but am willing to invest some time in this or
> > similar tools.
> 
> I have finally been able to reproduce this on my system and am trying
> to debug it.  gdb gives incomplete information on inline class methods,
> so I'm trying a build with -O0 -fno-default-inline.  If I still can't
> debug it I'll start converting the function in question to C, which is
> at least debuggable.
> 
> Actually, if you can build with the same flags on your RedHat or
> Solaris box and get me a stack trace, that might help.  My problem is
> that all my stacks look like this:
> 
> #0  0x0804b8ca in mlfi_envrcpt(smfi_str*, char**) (ctx=0x8067380,
>     envrcpt=0x805b080) at /usr/include/c++/3.3/bits/basic_string.h:249
> #1  0x2808b116 in mi_clr_macros () from /usr/lib/libmilter.so.2
> #2  0x2808a642 in mi_engine () from /usr/lib/libmilter.so.2
> 
> gdb collapsed the inline string operation on top of the code in
> mlfi_envrcpt, so I have no idea where in the function it died.

Tnx for your fast reply.  I can do some more investigations on monday,
will try to build with -O0 -fno-default-inline on the Debian box then.
(I assume I'll have to build spamass-milter with these flags, and not
sendmail's libmilter, do I?)

Bye,

Joost

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Joost van Baal                                http://banach.uvt.nl/
                                                 Tilburg University
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