Nagios SIGSEGVs

[Greg Vickers]

OK I'll get the latest version from CVS, however Nagios was successfully 
verifying and running before the server reboot, I don't understand why 
the nagios executable is segfaulting now :(

Thanks,
Greg

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Greg Vickers wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I downloaded Nagios 2.0b1 onto a brand new install of RHEL3 and built 
>> it OK. It was working great, running as expected, web interface and 
>> everything. Then I rebooted the server to check that nagios started OK 
>> and that the iptables rules worked to allow NSCA passive service 
>> checks in, as I'm not overly familiar with RHEL3.
>>
>> Nagios didn't start - got a pretty red FAILED message on the console. 
>> So I log on and have a lookie - running "/etc/init.d/nagios start" 
>> reports no lock file found. Running "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 
>> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.etc" fails silently.
>> Running "strace -f -o nagios.strace /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 
>> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.etc" shows up a SEGSEGV as one of the 
>> last entries.
>>
>> I've tried reconfiguring and recompiling and the exe is the same size 
>> as the one that is installed and it does the same thing when I run 
>> that new exe...
>>
>> Am I missing something obvious or do I have a ghost in the machine?
>>
> 
> 2.0 is beta. If you're going to run it, you need to run the CVS code to 
> make sure you've got the latest fixes.
> 
> AFAICR there was an issue like this when the config was constructed in a 
> certain way (segfault at load-time) a couple of months back.
> 
>> If you're interested, here is a copy of the strace output (only up for 
>> 2 weeks) at this URL: 
>> https://fileshare.qut.edu.au/public/vickersg/nagios.strace.gz
>>
>> TIA,
> 
> 

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