[360] in bug-owl
Re: Long hostnames make owl segfault
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Kretchmar)
Thu Dec 30 14:56:37 2004
Message-Id: <200412301956.iBUJuTB0013361@paddington.mit.edu>
To: jesse <jesse@fsck.com>
cc: bug-owl@ktools.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:12:33 EST."
<20041214021233.GN22549@bestpractical.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:56:29 -0500
From: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>
Ok, this'll be fixed in 2.1.10.
> From: jesse <jesse@fsck.com>
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> jrv jesse[] owl died
> cfox jesse[] Right, it's clearly something in the input;
> you Karl and
> jlwfnord all had your owls die at once.
> cfox jesse[] are you configured to keep core dumps?
> jrv jesse[] new host. hang on a sec. was it kcr's long
> hostname?
> jrv jesse[] no. no cores here :/
> cfox jesse[] Yeah, it was.
> cfox jesse[] Well, he wasn't very clear about owl actually
> crashing,
> but I presumed that from his later zephyr.
> cfox jesse[] (oh, are you asking whether his hostname
> crashes it? that
> would be sad...)
> jrv jesse[] iirc, that was the previous speculation
> cfox jesse[] hunh.
> cfox jesse[] well, that should be easy to fix... yeah, he
> sent "death
> to owl!"
> cfox jesse[] and then Jim complained
> eichin jesse[] I thought it was known to be a long hostname
> crash, but
> noone had actually debugged it.
> eichin jesse[] (nor has anyone filed a debian bug against it,
> but filing
> something in the ktools bugzilla is presumably
> more
> useful)
> -> eichin jesse[] (and if there is a fix I'd build new debs, but
> can't
> otherwise be bothered, I only ever run it on
> st...)
>
>
> --
