Bug#538340: exim4-daemon-heavy: Exim segfaults sending mail

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-08-03 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> On 2009-07-25 "David A. Greene" <dag at cray.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 25 July 2009 02:16:50 you wrote:
>>>> exim4[7068]: segfault at 2c ip 782ebf3 sp bfb32aac error 4 in
>>>> libc-2.9.so[b77b8000+13c000]

>>> [...]

>>> Could you provide a backtrace

>> How do I generate one?

> You would run exim inside GNU debugger, i.e.:

> 1. install exim4-daemon-heavy-dbg
> 2. gdb /usr/sbin/exim4
> run -bd
> [ start behavior that causes crashes]
> bt

>>> * debugging output
>> From where / how do I generate it?

> Run exim with debugging arguments, then trigger the crash, ie.:

> exim4 -bd -d+all

> If this is a production system it might be possible to run these tests
> in a testing instance, using a different spooldirectory against the
> broken db files.

Any progress on the debugging output or anything I could be of
assistance with?

thanks, cu andreas
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