Bug 177902 - Callbootd segfaults when connecting to nonexistent server
Summary: Callbootd segfaults when connecting to nonexistent server
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: bootparamd
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-16 11:45 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-01-17 06:35:11 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2006-01-16 11:45:23 UTC 
Description of problem:

Callbootd results in segmentation fault when trying to connect
to localhost nonexistent bootparamd server

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

bootparamd-0.17-21.RHEL4.* and older versions

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.# service bootparamd status
  #   
  (this blank field means, that bootparamd was never run on this host) 
2.# ifconfig

          eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:09:6B:1A:43:18
          inet addr:192.168.5.106  Bcast:192.168.5.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          . . .
3. callbootd `hostname` 192.168.5.106
  
Actual results:

Segmentation fault

Expected results:

Whoami returning:
Null answer!!!
Bad answer returned from server tennyson.z900.redhat.com 


Additional info:

The same behaviour can be seen on RHEL-3.
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