Re: Segmentation Fault in cfagent on RH EL-3.0 updates 3,5

[Gary Meyer]

The very first thing I did, was to download the latest stable source 
code, and rebuild it right on the box that had been newly installed 
with EL3 Update 5.  I was hoping that either someone else had fixed the 
problem(s) or that rebuilding the tool would solve it.  Unfortunately 
for me, the guys who built the older version of CFEngine at my company 
are long gone, so I don't really know if they had to use some weird 
flags in building CFEngine.  It seemed to me that I could probably do 
with a simple "./configure", but that doesn't seemed to have helped.  
There are several hundred packages that have been changed by RedHat 
between 3.0 with no updates and update 5, and I thought that rebuilding 
CFEngine would fix that.  Unfortunately it didn't.
Gary.
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Gary Meyer
Configuration Management Engineer
Process Engineering
Caspian Networks
gmeyer@caspiannetworks.com

On Jun 28, 2005, at 11:18 PM, Mark Burgess wrote:

> This sounds a little strange. The trouble with free segfaults is that
> they are impossible to track down. It might even be the version of libc
> that you have. Perhaps you could collect a few of these and see if 
> there
> is a pattern. Often this kind of thing can occur due to build errors,
> e.g. mixed up library versions.  Have you considered rebuilding 
> cfagent?
>
> Mark