Description of problem: Starting with January 14th I started to collect in logs entries like that (a sample from the last few days): Jan 20 13:17:30 ... spamd[16364]: segfault at 0000000000000020 rip 000000352e872ab5 rsp 00007fff5614ff70 error 6 Jan 20 17:58:18 ... spamd[16517] general protection rip:38774855c9 rsp:7fff56150ab0 error:0 Jan 20 18:26:08 ... spamd[19568] general protection rip:3542af0c25 rsp:7fff56150350 error:0 Jan 20 18:42:35 ... spamd[19860]: segfault at 0000003b368ac1c0 rip 0000003542a2861d rsp 00007fff56150000 error 4 Jan 20 18:56:49 ... spamd[20048] general protection rip:3542af27da rsp:7fff5614fea0 error:0 Jan 20 21:47:59 ... spamd[20195] general protection rip:3542a49691 rsp:7fff561500a0 error:0 Jan 21 05:53:41 ... spamd[22000]: segfault at 0000000000000014 rip 0000003542a49691 rsp 00007fff561500a0 error 4 Jan 21 07:53:40 ... spamd[28378]: segfault at 00000000000001e0 rip 0000003542a495cb rsp 00007fff561500f0 error 4 Jan 21 08:30:44 ... spamd[30008] general protection rip:3542af260a rsp:7fff56150030 error:0 Jan 21 14:38:03 ... spamd[1619] trap stack segment rip:387748a2d3 rsp:7fff56150830 error:0 Jan 21 16:43:34 ... spamd[2422] trap stack segment rip:352e8708ab rsp:7fff5614fed0 error:0 Jan 21 18:46:02 ... spamd[4174] general protection rip:3542af27da rsp:7fff56150030 error:0 Jan 21 22:09:06 ... spamd[5631] general protection rip:352e875edb rsp:7fff56150b30 error:0 Jan 21 22:23:45 ... spamd[8077]: segfault at 000000000367b000 rip 000000352e87b8ab rsp 00007fff5614ff98 error 4 Jan 22 14:19:44 ... spamd[16578] general protection rip:3542af8a85 rsp:7fff56150068 error:0 Jan 22 23:18:03 ... spamd[20976] trap stack segment rip:387748a2d3 rsp:7fff56150830 error:0 Jan 23 00:59:21 ... spamd[27585] general protection rip:3542af8a85 rsp:7fff5614fd58 error:0 Jan 23 06:41:41 ... spamd[28658] general protection rip:3542af1d99 rsp:7fff5614fc50 error:0 Jan 23 09:39:49 ... spamd[1958] trap divide error rip:3542afc78a rsp:7fff5614ffa0 error:0 Jan 24 05:34:20 ... spamd[10405] general protection rip:3542af27da rsp:7fff56150450 error:0 Jan 24 08:12:26 ... spamd[23140]: segfault at 0000000003548000 rip 000000352e87b8ab rsp 00007fff5614fec8 error 4 In maillog file I see invariably something like that: spamd[2386]: prefork: child states: IB spamd[2386]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid 23140 due to SIGCHLD spamd[2386]: prefork: child states: I spamd[2386]: spamd: server successfully spawned child spamd[2386]: prefork: child states: II and that process 23140 was attempting to handle a message "... from=<brand_new_goodies>, size=5157, ...." and in other cases something similarly exciting. This is not critical in that sense that only that particular child crashed and spamd is still operational but recently that started to happen with a disconcerting regularity. OTOH on http://spamassassin.apache.org/ it is possible to find now 3.2.4 and, although not the easiest to check what differences are, it is billed as "a major bug-fix release". Maybe it would help? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): spamassassin-3.2.3-2.fc8 Additional info: This is the only machine I can watch that way with a significant mail traffic and running that particular version of spamassassin so I do not know how widespread is that or what else could be involved. I am afraid that I do not have copies of messages in question.
Hmm, I thought I had already pushed spamassassin-3.2.4 to F8. It is already built since a while ago. I'll make sure it gets pushed soon.
> Hmm, I thought I had already pushed spamassassin-3.2.4 to F8 So far it did now show up even if updates-testing. OTOH I recompiled spamassassin-3.2.4-1.fc8.src.rpm from koji and I am still seeing "segfault at 0000000126710768 rip 0000003542a2861d rsp 00007fff07917360 error 4" Sigh!
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/pending/spamassassin-3.2.4-1.fc8 updates-testing ticket is here Could you please file your crash in the upstream Spamassassin Bugzilla? http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/
> Could you please file your crash in the upstream Spamassassin Bugzilla? Bummer! The next account to be opened on the next bugzilla! Will do, but I do not have much to go on. Nothing of that sort today although yesterday there were four such incidents already after I put 3.2.4 into action.
Filed as http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5801 There are some additional details there.
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There doesn't seem to be any movement here or on the upstream bug... Does this still happen with 3.2.5 ? GPF sounds like a hardware error almost.
> Does this still happen with 3.2.5 No. I did not see that for a long while. This was nearly a year ago so whatever evidence/test could be pertinent then it is long gone.