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List:       exim-users
Subject:    Re: [exim] Exim-4.60-0: uid 26: exited on signal 6
From:       Stanislaw Halik <weirdo () tehran ! lain ! pl>
Date:       2006-01-26 14:32:43
Message-ID: 20060126143243.GA24131 () tehran ! lain ! pl
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"Pat H." <pat@synhosting.com> wrote:
> It seems like every 2nd or 3rd email that comes into our server, Exim
> dumps the following into /var/log/messages:

> Jan 25 17:57:54 master kernel: pid 47576 (exim-4.60-0), uid 26: exited on signal 6
> Jan 25 18:03:37 master kernel: pid 47707 (exim-4.60-0), uid 26: exited on signal 6

> On a FreeBSD 5.4-Stable server.

> I did a strace on one of the PID's and here's what it shows:

> [pid 47732] write(2, " in free():", 11) = 11
> [pid 47732] write(2, " error: ", 8)     = 8
> [pid 47732] write(2, "junk pointer, too high to make s"..., 37) = 37

> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to fix this or a
> workaround? I've reinstalled Exim, played around with the
> configuration, restarted the server and still had no luck...

Please do a full GDB backtrace with debugging symbols on a non-stripped
binary - strace only inspects the syscalls.

It's possibly a memory corruption. Anyway, hard to settle before seeing
the bt.

-- 
Stanisław Halik, http://tehran.lain.pl

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