Bug 170904 – logrotate segfaults on what appears to be a valid config file

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Bug 170904 - logrotate segfaults on what appears to be a valid config file

Summary:	logrotate segfaults on what appears to be a valid config file

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	logrotate (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Peter Vrabec
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Duplicates:	170955 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2005-10-15 07:51 EDT by Bojan Smojver
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-10-15 18:57:27 EDT
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Configuration file (505 bytes, text/plain) 2005-10-15 07:51 EDT, Bojan Smojver	no flags	Details
strace output (26.17 KB, text/plain) 2005-10-15 07:52 EDT, Bojan Smojver	no flags	Details
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Description Bojan Smojver 2005-10-15 07:51:13 EDT

Created attachment 120012 [details]
Configuration file

Comment 1 Bojan Smojver 2005-10-15 07:51:13 EDT

Description of problem:
logrotate segfaults with:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate: line 3:  4376 Segmentation fault     
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.7.2-6

How reproducible:
Happens every day.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do nothing, let cron/anacron run logrotate.

  
Actual results:
logrotate segfaults.

Expected results:
Should work as it used to.

Additional info:
Attaching config file and strace output.

GDB backtrace:
----------------------------
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.81rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db
library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) set args /etc/logrotate.conf
(gdb) r
Starting program: /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done.
Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x8e7000

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00b7c026 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00b7c026 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x0804ce6d in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfdac244) at logrotate.c:90
#2  0x00b2d50f in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x08049851 in _start ()
----------------------------

Comment 2 Bojan Smojver 2005-10-15 07:52:51 EDT

Created attachment 120013 [details]
strace output

Comment 3 Peter Vrabec 2005-10-15 08:34:18 EDT

check logrotate-3.7.2-7 please,

http://people.redhat.com/pvrabec/rpms/logrotate-3.7.2-7.src.rpm

Comment 4 Bojan Smojver 2005-10-15 18:57:27 EDT

Yeah, appears much better. Thanks.

Comment 5 Peter Vrabec 2005-10-17 02:59:57 EDT

*** Bug 170955 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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