Re: fetchmail segfaults
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:50:23PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, David Jardine wrote: I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my [...] Fetchmail dies with something like the following: Speaking as the fetchmail maintainer, get a new version. The fetchmail in slink is full of segfaults. Same goes to the one in potato. The segfaults could be triggered by certain email patterns. if the fetchmail in potato is this broken shouldn't a better one be put into proprosed-updates/r3 ? or will the release manager not buy it? -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgphHcDJdMYpq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail segfaults
on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 03:18:48AM +0200, David Jardine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my home computer (I'm no expert) after a failed attempt to install potato, but can no longer get incoming mail. Fetchmail dies with something like the following: fetchmail: POP3 9 562 fetchmail: POP3 . 9 messages for davidj at pop3.web.de (8864 octets). fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK Nachricht folgt/message follows reading message 1 of 9 (2297 octets) fetchmail: realloc failed followed by 'Segmentation fault'. It leaves a file named I've experienced this behavior with poorly formed mail headers, almost always generated by spam engines. I've found it's occasionally possible to clear these items by hand following the appropriate RFC. Which I'm frantically digging through posted emails trying to find No luck. I dug it up once though -- believe it's the POP protocol. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpPhQz3JlA3u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail segfaults
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:50:23PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, David Jardine wrote: I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my [...] Fetchmail dies with something like the following: Speaking as the fetchmail maintainer, get a new version. The fetchmail in slink is full of segfaults. Same goes to the one in potato. The segfaults could be triggered by certain email patterns. if the fetchmail in potato is this broken shouldn't a better one be put into proprosed-updates/r3 ? or will the release manager not buy it? Well, it is not a security update, and it has about 90% chance of causing headaches, since the new initscript/ppp-scripts scheme will force the user to do some manual configuration. I don't think it should go in stable. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh pgpyGTnnstd3G.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail segfaults
Henrique M Holschuh wrote (on 4 Apr 2001, at 9:48): Well, it is not a security update, and it has about 90% chance of causing headaches, since the new initscript/ppp-scripts scheme will force the user to do some manual configuration. I don't think it should go in stable. Considering I've already manually messed with my /etc/init.d and /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts enough, let me just ask for the specifics before upgrading: certain internal problems with segfaults due to certain mail content are fixed in the version now in woody? Tony -- Tony Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +49-3341-30 99 99
Re: fetchmail segfaults
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, Tony Crawford wrote: Henrique M Holschuh wrote (on 4 Apr 2001, at 9:48): Well, it is not a security update, and it has about 90% chance of causing headaches, since the new initscript/ppp-scripts scheme will force the user to do some manual configuration. I don't think it should go in stable. Considering I've already manually messed with my /etc/init.d and /etc/ppp/ip-up.d scripts enough, let me just ask for the specifics before upgrading: certain internal problems with segfaults due to certain mail content are fixed in the version now in woody? Yes. But be ready to have CRAM-MD5 and other nasty pits of bugs on IMAP/pop3 servers (and fetchmail, I suppose) to jump at your neck. --auth password is your friend if that happens. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh pgpwGIgSlBZBd.pgp Description: PGP signature
fetchmail segfaults
I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my
home computer (I'm no expert) after a failed attempt to install
potato, but can no longer get incoming mail.
Fetchmail dies with something like the following:
fetchmail: POP3 9 562
fetchmail: POP3 .
9 messages for davidj at pop3.web.de (8864 octets).
fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3 +OK Nachricht folgt/message follows
reading message 1 of 9 (2297 octets)
fetchmail: realloc failed
followed by 'Segmentation fault'. It leaves a file named
'.fetchmail.pid', 'a lockfile to prevent concurrent runs' as
I'm told by the manpage.
Exim (/var/log/exim/mainlog) doesn't report anything happening.
Exim was configured using eximconfig, option 1, with the manual
addition of
local_domains = tapie:localhost
tapie being the name I gave to the computer. The only thing I
entered during eximconfig was a user name for the postmaster
(dave).
I was a bit suspicious of the following entries in /etc/aliases:
postmaster: root
root: dave
root: root
but changing them to
postmaster: dave
or
postmaster: dave
root: root
didn't help.
Fetchmail is set up to get mail from several servers, but it
segfaults at the first one that actually has mail. When I run
fetchmail for the first time after a re-installation - I've
done a few in the last day or so - I think it reports an SMTP
error and continues. (Unfortunately I always forget to put a
2errfile in the command, so I only see the lines flying by.)
Incidentally, exim works perfectly for outgoing mail, rewrites
'n'all. And the whole thing worked before I re-installed -
from the same CDs.
I'd be most grateful if someone could point me in the direction
of a solution - which I'll have to pick up on the dark side of
my box :{
David
Re: fetchmail segfaults
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, David Jardine wrote: I recently re-installed a slink system from scratch on my [...] Fetchmail dies with something like the following: Speaking as the fetchmail maintainer, get a new version. The fetchmail in slink is full of segfaults. Same goes to the one in potato. The segfaults could be triggered by certain email patterns. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh pgpQpdY880YUw.pgp Description: PGP signature
