Re: BUG #5773: DEBUG: reaping dead processes DEBUG: server process (PID 10007) was terminated by signal 11: Segme

YES, Its on Amazon EC2 (our production DB running postgres 8.3 version for
more than 3yrs). And its a clean folder.

I am not sure below is the one you are expecting, but hope the below trace
helps..

root(at)acti-db-bala:~# sudo -u postgres gdb -q -c /var/lib/pgsql/data/core
/var/lib/pgsql/bin/postgres
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.6.32...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/lib/libdl-2.9.so...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/lib/libm-2.9.so...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/lib/libc-2.9.so...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.1...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/lib/libz.so.1.2.3.3...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.1
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/lib/ld-2.9.so...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...Reading symbols from
/usr/lib/debug/lib/libnss_files-2.9.so...done.
done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2
Reading symbols from /var/lib/pgsql/lib/uniqueidentifier.so...done.
Loaded symbols for /var/lib/pgsql/lib/uniqueidentifier.so
Reading symbols from /lib/libuuid.so.1...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libuuid.so.1
Core was generated by `postgres: postgres acti [local] COPY '.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
[New process 16223]
#0 strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:48
48 ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S: Permission denied.
in ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S
(gdb)
Current language: auto; currently asm

Thanks,
Bala

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Craig Ringer
<craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>wrote:

> On 27/11/2010 5:09 PM, Balamurugan Mahendran wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your immediate reply!!. Happy Thanks Giving day!!
>>
>> postgres(at)acti-db-bala:~$ uname -a
>> Linux acti-db-bala 2.6.16.33-xenU #2 SMP Wed Aug 15 17:27:36 SAST 2007
>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>
> Is this running on a virtual hosting provider somewhere? If so, which one?
>
>
> postgres(at)acti-db-bala:~$ cat /etc/issue
>> Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l
>>
>> Also I used to compile by the below command
>>
>> ./configure --prefix=/var/lib/pgsql --with-perl --with-libxml
>> --enable-debug
>>
>
> ... hang on. Did you have anything else in /var/lib/pgsql before running
> this install? If you had an old version that you didn't clean out in there,
> I'd expect problems.
>
> It's usually wise to install custom-compiled software to a prefix that
> doesn't already contain anything else, like --prefix=/opt/pgsql-9.0.1 . That
> way it's easy to delete, easy to keep separate from other things, etc.
>
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>
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>