Bug 987761

Summary: Segmentation fault during cf-monitord start
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Richard Neuboeck <hawk>
Component: cfengineAssignee: Christopher Meng <i>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Richard Neuboeck 2013-07-24 06:19:54 UTC
Description of problem:
cf-monitord does not start because a segmentation fault occurs

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cfengine-3.3.0-3.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
On all x86_64 machines I've tested.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install cfengine-3.3.0-3.fc19.x86_64
2. Run cf-monitord as root

Actual results:
Trying to start cf-monitord fails with a seg fault:

# cf-monitord
Segmentation fault


Expected results:
A running cf-monitord in the background

Additional info:
I've used gdb and found that the function 'MonitorInitialize' in src/env_monitor.c failes to initialize the array HISTOGRAM[i][j][k] due to mixed up variables.

HISTOGRAM is defined as:

static double HISTOGRAM[CF_OBSERVABLES][7][CF_GRAINS];

But initialized as follows. The upper limit of i should be CF_OBSERVABLES and of j it should be 7:

    for (i = 0; i < 7; i++)
    {
        for (j = 0; j < CF_OBSERVABLES; j++)
        {
            for (k = 0; k < CF_GRAINS; k++)
            {
                HISTOGRAM[i][j][k] = 0;
            }
        }
    }

However, the most confusing thing is that simply downloading the corresponding src.rpm and rebuilding it seems to overcome the seg fault problem though the sources clearly have the same mixed up variables.

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2013-09-16 08:49:51 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Christopher Meng 2013-09-17 01:38:50 UTC
I will push an update of 3.5.2 later, can you help test it?

Comment 3 Richard Neuboeck 2013-09-17 05:16:36 UTC
(In reply to Christopher Meng from comment #2)
> I will push an update of 3.5.2 later, can you help test it?

Nö problem. Give me package and I'll test it tomorrow morning.

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