-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philip Hazel wrote: > On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Michel Meyers wrote: > >> I installed the package that Andreas supplied: >> http://downhill.aus.cc/debian/misc/exim4-daemon-heavy_4.61-1.0.0.debug_i386.deb >> (md5: 1adecd15e58afe4f06d35b41bbda8871) >> >> The binary should be in there as well. (you can extract it with ar if >> you don't have Debian) > > Aha! I don't have Debian (I run Gentoo), but I did manage to extract it > like that, and now there is some useful information: > > (gdb) where > #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () > #1 0xbfd18ce8 in ?? () > #2 0xb7ab6ff4 in ?? () > #3 0xbfd18d0c in ?? () > #4 0xb7a44313 in ?? () > #5 0xb7e78cb0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so > #6 0xbfd18d78 in ?? () > #7 0xb7e5ffb2 in __memp_set_ftype_4002 () from /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so > #8 0xb7e5ffb2 in __memp_set_ftype_4002 () from /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so > #9 0xb7e459ce in __dbenv_set_flags_4002 () from /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so > #10 0xb7e2cfff in __db_c_put_4002 () from /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so > #11 0xb7e28990 in __db_pg_free_read_4002 () from /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so > #12 0x080616b2 in dbfn_open (name=0x80f1ad1 "retry", flags=2, > dbblock=0x812d498, lof=1) at dbfn.c:166 > #13 0x0809da66 in retry_update (addr_defer=0x810bf18, addr_failed=0x810bf14, > addr_succeed=0x810bf04) at retry.c:599 > #14 0x0806b61d in deliver_message (id=0x81244d5 "1FYpIF-0006Rh-NB", forced=0, > give_up=0) at deliver.c:6086 > #15 0x0808fc8a in queue_run (start_id=0x0, stop_id=0x0, recurse=0) > at queue.c:621 > #16 0x08072c0e in main (argc=<value optimized out>, cargv=0xbfd59bc4) > at exim.c:3878 > > If that backtrace is to be trusted, Exim's function dbfn_open() has > called the function __db_pg_free_read_4002() from the libdb library, and > somewhere in there is where things get stuck. Of course, Exim doesn't > call such a function by a name like that. It will be using the "open" > function pointer in the data structure it gets from db_create(). > > There have been several releases of libdb-4.2 (I'm running 4.2.52). I > wonder what you are running?
I've got 4.2.52-23.1. > Anyway, this looks like something really horrid going on inside libdb. I > am not at all sure what we do now. Andreas? Good question. Either this is something wrong with my system (HDD corruption?) or the Debian bug needs to go to the maintainer of libdb4.2 for further handling. Greetings, Michel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 iD8DBQFEUj9D2Vs+MkscAyURAhD9AKD2O1ezgVH78BoaytC6sD/XNzdo0wCfcudA gpNIAYbj2VmguUOXsfYhN80= =Y/6F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/