Re: signal 11 on AIX: 7.4.2

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: signal 11 on AIX: 7.4.2
Date: 2004-06-17 22:06:12
Message-ID: 200406172206.i5HM6Cb22820@candle.pha.pa.us
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:12:10PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Well, the bad news is that this backtrace isn't very useful.
>
> No kidding. It's pretty frustrating.
>
> > My only guess is that getaddrinfo in your libc has a bug somehow that is
> > corrupting the stack (hance the improper backtrace), then crashing.
>
> It could be libc on AIX, I suppose, but it strikes me as sort of odd
> that nobody else ever seens this. Unless nobody else is using AIX
> 5.1, which is of course possible.
>
> One hypothesis is that this is happening at start up time (this core
> dump didn't show up in the data/ area, but in the init directory,
> however, which makes that theory a little suspect).

When you say "init" directory, what do you mean? /bin?

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