[OpenAFS] afsmonitor segfault

Stephan Wiesand stephan.wiesand@desy.de
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:17:35 +0200


On Aug 23, 2010, at 18:06 , Derrick Brashear wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:58 AM,  <lists@drewstud.com> wrote:
>> I am using openafs 1.4.11 .
>=20
> That's not the greatest of ideas, but I doubt it's the problem.
>=20
>> I want to gather statistics and if I do not specify the -output flag, =
afsmonitor works fine. However when I call:
>> afsmonitor -fshosts <fqdn> -output stats.txt
>> It segfaults
>> http://pastebin.com/MDpUW7ww
>>=20
>> Am I calling it with the wrong?
>=20
> I don't have anything as old as 1.4.11, and I'm not going to install
> it. However I'd venture it's either
> 1) a bug we fixed, probably in the 1.5 series in git commit
> 2) a bug we didn't fix which only occurs when (a server is down, some
> similar situation)
> 3) do you perchance have 64 bit machines at one or both ends, and
> perhaps we have some non-64-bit-safe handling in the code?
>=20
> (It works in the basic test case I fired off using your command; I'll
> try to poke later, but still not with 1.4.11, which is obsolete)

This problem is present in 1.4.12 on amd64 - i386 works (SL5 clients, =
server is SL5 amd64). With 1.5.76, amd64 is ok as well.

--=20
Stephan Wiesand
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