Re: (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= <cs(at)deriva(dot)de> writes:
> [ ongoing saga ]

I don't think you ever mentioned exactly what platform you're running
on; it seems to be some 64-bit Linux variant but you didn't say which.
I've been futilely trying to reproduce the hang on a Xeon Fedora Core 6
machine, and just now I noticed what might be a significant discrepancy.
You showed this in a gdb printout:

> Reading symbols from
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so...done.
> Loaded symbols for
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
> Reading symbols from /lib64/libpthread.so.0...done.
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 47248855881456 (LWP 7129)]
> Loaded symbols for /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> Reading symbols from
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Opcode/Opcode.so...done.
> Loaded symbols for
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Opcode/Opcode.so

On my machine the corresponding lines point to /usr/lib64:

Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
Reading symbols from /lib64/libpthread.so.0...done.
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 46912496247568 (LWP 344)]
Loaded symbols for /lib64/libpthread.so.0
Reading symbols from /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Opcode/Opcode.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Opcode/Opcode.so

Maybe this is just a cross-distribution difference in file layouts,
but I'm suddenly wondering if there's a 32-vs-64-bit issue here.
Exactly which perl packages have you got installed?

regards, tom lane