[op5-users] Merlin crashed on me?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Frater, Greg J wrote:
> Andreas, 
> 
> When you have time.
> 
> I'm at a stand still with Merlin until this can get resolved.  I don't
> get any kind of core dump when it crashes (or I don't know where to
> look).

Try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting the merlin daemon. If/when you
get one, I'll need to see the backtrace from it as well. You can get that
by simply running

gdb merlind corefile
(gdb prompt) bt

copy-paste the output to an email and send it to me. Without the backtrace
it's impossible for me to see what's going wrong I'm afraid :-/

The core-dump *should* end up in the directory you're starting Merlin from,
although if it's the module producing the coredumps, they will end up
in the nagios-user's homedirectory, and you'll have to enable core-dumping
in nagios.cfg (daemon_dumps_core=1) and also make sure the nagios user's
home directory is writable by the nagios user.

>  I'm not sure how else to help, I'm certainly willing to, I just
> don't know what else to do.  Please advise.  If you can't get to this
> for a while that's okay to, I will stop spending any cycles on it until
> you have time.  I know there's been a large surge in Nagios
> development/activity recently, I understand you guys have a lot going on
> at the moment.
> 

I've requested a 64-bit system now, but our sysadmin dude is home sick
today so I'll have to figure out how to set up a new vmware system
myself. This involves some arcane trickery with rdp-ing into a windows
machine, so I'm having lots of fun although making very little progress.

But really, don't waste your time on this until I've made some fixes to
Merlin. Something's wrong with it on 64-bit systems, and I need to figure
out what it is.

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