Re: ldm-5.2 problems

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Christian Pagé wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I installed the patch, but pqsurf still exit with a signal 10 and bring 
> down the whole LDM. I checked to be sure that everything got recompiled 
> and installed. I am running IRIX 6.5.13m on an SGI 64-bit machine.
> 

Christian,

The signal 10 dumps a core file, so could you run dbx on the file. Do 
% file core
to see if it's pqsurf core. I think the syntax is 

% dbx pqsurf core

where


This should show the problem.  Otherwise, if I could get the core file to
do some debugging.  Is this a 32 bit build? Any other info would help,logs
Also, are you sure that the pqsurf file was replace?  I'm on vacation
tomorrow, so I'll look at it Monday.   If you need, you can us the pqusrf
from the LDM 5.1.4 distribution with the LDM 5.2 release.

Robb...




> On Thursday, August 8, 2002, at 01:01 PM, Robb Kambic wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Steve Ochani wrote:
> >
> >> Is this patch publicly available? Or will it be incorporated into the 
> >> next
> > minor version?
> >>
> >
> > Hiya,
> >
> > The patch only applies to ldm-users who are running pqsurf. The problem
> > was the processing of the short  NIL type bulletins that caused buffer
> > overflow. Of course, the patch will be included in the next minor 
> > version
> > of the LDM that will be released soon.
> >
> > To get the code:
> >
> > The surf_split.c file is located in the ftp directory under
> >
> > pub/ldm5
> >
> > To install the code:
> >
> > Copy the surf_split.c into the src/pqsurf directory
> >
> > type:
> >
> > % cd src/pqsurf
> > % make
> > % cp pqsurf ../../bin
> >
> > stop/start the ldm.
> >
> >
> > For users of of the patch program the follow patch is included for
> > surf_split.c.
> >
> >
> > Robb...
> >
> >
> >
> > Index: surf_split.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /upc/share/CVS/ldm5/pqsurf/surf_split.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.36
> > diff -r1.36 surf_split.c
> > 172,173c172,179
> > <       memcpy( header, datap, 48 );
> > <       header[48] = '\0';
> > ---
> >>       /* inspect header as a string to see if to use PIL processing  */
> >>       if(infop->sz >  48 ) {
> >>               memcpy( header, datap, 48 );
> >>               header[48] = '\0';
> >>       } else {
> >>               memcpy( header, datap, infop->sz );
> >>               header[infop->sz] = '\0';
> >>       }
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7 Aug 2002 at 17:37, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> Weather2.admin.niu.edu, and my other machines, are running 
> >>> successfully on
> >>> LDM 5.2 with a patch. We were getting memfault errors with the pqsurf
> >>> program that brought down the entire LDM. I've now gone a full 24 
> >>> hours on
> >>> it with no problems, by far and away the longest period without it
> >>> crashing. The patch is a success! I'll monitor tonight and each night
> >>> through Friday, as well as this weekend, but it looks like this 
> >>> problem
> >>> has been nipped in the bud. BTW, this only appears to be a RedHat 
> >>> thing,
> >>> as it doesn't do this on Solaris. Glibc is a little pickier on 
> >>> Linux, I
> >>> guess!
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >> learned in school. -Albert Einstein
> >>
> >> Steve O.
> >> http://www.steveo.us
> >>
> >> See updated NCC weather conditions at
> >> http://wr.psi.ncc.edu/~data
> >>
> >> http://www.ncc.edu/dptpages/physci/
> >>
> >> http://www.hitechcreations.com/
> >> Come fly the unfriendly skies
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > =========================================================================
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> > Robb Kambic                            Unidata Program Center
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> > Research
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> >
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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