Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!brunix!rws From: rws@cs.brown.edu (Richard W. Sabourin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: IDA Sendmail on Sun 4 panics ... any ideas? Summary: summary Keywords: summary Message-ID: <50279@brunix.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 90 18:14:20 GMT References: <49991@brunix.UUCP> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rws@cs.brown.edu (Richard W. Sabourin) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 58 In article <49991@brunix.UUCP> I wrote: |> |>I have recently installed Sendmail 5.64+ w/ IDA on our central mail machine, |>a Sun 4/360 running 4.1. (I don't have the IDA revision # on hand, but it |>was just last month ftp'ed from uunet.) It compiled fine, and uses MX |>records fine. The .cf file is rather a mishmash, but I debugged it and |>it does what we want. |> |>Anyway, this machine has recently begun panicking a couple times a week, |>always at night (figures), with the following: |> |>-------------------------------------------------- |>panic: Data fault |>BAD TRAP |>pid 2680, `sendmail': Data fault |>kernel read fault at addr=0xf8238ff8, pme=0x0 |>Bus Error Reg 80 |>[etc] |>-------------------------------------------------- |>[...] Here is a summary of the more useful email responses I've received. (IDA revision is 1.3.4.) From "Mark D. Baushke" : >Did you remember to build with the -Bstatic switch turned on? I have >only had trouble with 5.64+IDA when using dynamic libraries. Even then >it never caused a panic, it just did not deliver the mail correctly. ... I didn't do that. I'll probably do that next. From rickert@cs.niu.edu: > Never overlook the possibility of a hardware failure. If it happens at >night, 'sendmail' may be the main program running, so the fact that it >always takes the hit might not mean very much. From Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO : >Does the error occur when the sendmail.fc file is removed? Piet Berteema >has found a bug with setdefuser() munging the malloc pointers when the >frozen config file is used. ... I have removed the .fc file, and the mail problems have not recurred in 3 days. So I hope for the best. Lastly, mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) posted: >This _is_ a kernel bug. The bug ID is 1029939, and Sun has a patch for it. Thank yous to all who replied. Now I turn my head to Sun's /bin/mail which has also been acting odd, but that's for another group... Rick Sabourin