[Opendnssec-user] Help with random signer crash

[Sebastian Castro]

On 02/11/2011 05:38 PM, Sebastian Castro wrote:
> My apologies in advance for this message, which is more venting that bug
> report.
> 

Thanks to all who replied off-list. We tried some of the approaches and
we haven't got anything specific, but we detected some secondary issues
in the process, like the one noted here

http://www.mail-archive.com/opencryptoki-tech@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00380.html

> In our testing environment we are hitting unexpected crashes from the
> signer, and refuses to give us light where it comes from.
> 
> The setup in a server running CentOS 5.5, equipped with a SCA6000,
> running openCryptoki and OpenDNSSEC 1.2.0
> 
> During start, the ods-signerd spits out the message below and reaches a
> state where all the threads can't progress because there is no
> "listener" behind the control sock (engine.sock)
> 
> sign2 openCryptokiModule[28609]: daemon/cmdhandler.c:209:
> cmdhandler_handle_cmd_sign: assertion cmdc->engine->tasklist failed
> 

During the testing we caused a crash due to a Segmentation Fault on line
engine.c:392

if (engine->workers[i]->task &&

Situation: engine->workers is NULL.
How: I have no idea but it might be related to the assertion

For this case I have a core dump which I'm sending to OpenDNSSEC developers.

> Note: for some reason we haven't investigated, the messages are logged
> under openCryptokiModule and not ods-signerd.
> 
> 
> Cheers,

Cheers,
-- 
Sebastian Castro
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