[CentOS] nfsen daemon dies for unknown reason

Tue May 8 11:41:37 UTC 2012
Nikolaos Milas <nmilas at noa.gr>

On 22/4/2012 1:28 μμ, Markus Falb wrote:

>> I am using nfsen 1.3.5 (http://nfsen.sourceforge.net/) on CentOS 5.8 x86_64 (running as a VM on a KVM Host).
>> >  
>> >  For those not knowing it, nfsen is using php and perl and it allows graphing and analysis of (Cisco routers) netflow data captured using nfdump.
>> >  
>> >  Often (about once a day) nfsen crashes for unknown reason. For example:
> ...
>
>> >  please provide details on what should I do. (e.g. how to install debug symbols for libperl.so and libpthread.so)
>>
> At least it can't hurt to install the debug symbols

Thanks Markus,

I installed the debugging symbols, and below follows a backtrace from a 
hang.

Can somebody please help in resolving the issue? Does this backtrace help?

Any other advice to resolve the issue with hangs?

Thanks,
Nick

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# gdb /data/nfsen/bin/nfsend 13540
GNU gdb (GDB) CentOS (7.0.1-42.el5.centos)
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<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu".
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
"/data/nfsen/bin/nfsend": not in executable format: File format not 
recognized
Attaching to process 13540
...
/Reading symbols...
...
/ (gdb) continue
Continuing.
/Detaching after fork from child process xxxxx.
Detaching after fork from child process yyyyy.
Detaching after fork from child process zzzzz./
...
Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe.
0x00000036e040df15 in __libc_send (fd=4, buf=0x473f250, n=12, flags=0) 
at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/send.c:28
28 return INLINE_SYSCALL (sendto, 6, fd, buf, n, flags, NULL, NULL);
(gdb) backtrace full
#0 0x00000036e040df15 in __libc_send (fd=4, buf=0x473f250, n=12, 
flags=0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/send.c:28
oldtype = <value optimized out>
result = <value optimized out>
#1 0x00000036e18cf063 in Perl_pp_send (my_perl=0x3bc4010) at pp_sys.c:1934
sp = <value optimized out>
mark = 0x3caa498
origmark = 0
targ = 0x468c000
gv = 0x4717f30
io = 0x4727fe0
bufsv = 0x468bfd0
buffer = 0x473f250 ".timeout=10\n"
length = <value optimized out>
retval = <value optimized out>
blen = 12
mg = <value optimized out>
#2 0x00000036e188a39e in Perl_runops_standard (my_perl=0x3bc4010) at 
run.c:37
No locals.
#3 0x00000036e18380ba in S_run_body (my_perl=0x3bc4010) at perl.c:2372
No locals.
#4 perl_run (my_perl=0x3bc4010) at perl.c:2289
oldscope = 1
ret = <value optimized out>
cur_env = {je_prev = 0x3bc42a8, je_buf = {{__jmpbuf = {140733567184264, 
8312953106376043799, 0, 140733567184256, 0, 0, 8313070080049120900,
8312953287326650575}, __mask_was_saved = 0, __saved_mask = {__val = {11, 
235712106880, 0, 0, 0, 62673248, 62668816, 62668816, 140733567184256,
62673248, 62668816, 235712042554, 0, 62669480, 0, 140733567184264}}}}, 
je_ret = 0, je_mustcatch = 0 '\000'}
#5 0x00000000004017bc in main (argc=3, argv=0x7fff1647ad88, env=<value 
optimized out>) at perlmain.c:99
exitstatus = -32

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