Bug 29587 – exim segfault if trying to start it in daemon mode

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Derk-Jan Hartman 2003-09-25 08:06:40 UTC]

Whenever i try to start my exim daemon is simply segfaults.
I think it maybe because of the fact that i'm running kernel 2.6test4



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
/etc/init.d/exim start report ok, yet ps shows no exim

Upon running /usr/sbin/exim -v -bd -q15m you get a segfault report. 



pjotr@sidekick log $ qpkg -I --info exim
net-mail/exim-4.21 *
        A highly configurable, drop-in replacement for sendmail [ http://www.exim.org/ ]



Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.2.5-r2,2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.0-test4 i686 Celeron (Coppermine)
ccache version 2.2 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config 
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs fixpackages"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo 
http://ftp.gentoo.skynet.be/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx ncurses 
pdflib png quicktime spell xml2 xmms zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk 
gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python motif opengl X alsa ipv6 php mysql -java qt kde 
-gnome gtk fluxbox maildir dvd oggvorbis xv avi mpeg slp truetype nls sdl aalib mad imlib 
wxwindows"

[Comment 1 Derk-Jan Hartman 2003-09-25 11:14:21 UTC]

I reemerged 4.21 and the same problem was there.
Then i downgraded to 4.20-r2, and that one is working like a charm again.

[Comment 2 Joonas Kortesalmi 2003-09-28 10:10:58 UTC]

USE="-ipv6" fixes this one. Or well, is a workaround.
After a strace run it seems it first binds :: and then 0.0.0.0.
:: already includes 0.0.0.0 so it gets address in use -> segfault.

Also upgrading to 4.22 seems to fix this (it is in ~x86).

There's also 4.24 version of exim available but it seems it's not in portage
yet?
My recommendation would be to change 4.22 to be in x86.

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2003-10-19 09:47:33 UTC]

*** Bug 29601 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Kurt Lieber (RETIRED) 2003-11-05 06:27:17 UTC]

4.24 is ~masked in portage.  4.22 was just updated to fix a sasl bug.  I'll
give it a couple days and then unmask 4.22 for x86.

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-03-18 15:37:36 UTC]

handing these over to Jay

[Comment 6 Colin Morey (RETIRED) 2004-04-24 03:22:08 UTC]

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41196 appears to have some more information... did running with -ipv6 clear up the issue? if so, could you try running with the 4.32 ebuild that should be in portage soon?

[Comment 7 Colin Morey (RETIRED) 2004-06-15 13:32:09 UTC]

Resolving this bug as no-one has responded with anything else, feel free to re-open if it's still an issue.