Thanks; I fixed this. -- David
On 11-May-2011 7:50 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi all, > > I was told by the friendly forum moderators that it's probably best if I post > my > findings here so it reaches the right people. > > I was experiencing a crash in boinc that, judging by the stack trace, looks > quite like the one in http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/ticket/1108. > > I dug around a bit with gdb and found that the problem in in the dir_size() > function in lib/filesys.cpp is which is rather naive: > it blindly follows symlinks and also assumes that any subpath it encounters > fits > in 255 bytes. The yoyo@home project has recently started to provide their muon > subproject also on linux hosts, with the help of wine. Now there is a .wine > configuration directory in my boinc directory that contains e.g. this symlink: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 boinc boinc 14 May 11 12:22 > /var/lib/boinc/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/boinc/My Documents -> /var/lib/boinc > > This is essentially causes an endless recursion in dir_size, that is quickly > ended ;) by overflowing the 256 bytes of the buffer. > > After removing the .wine directory boinc is running fine again, and I think I > can change the WINEPREFIX for boinc in the startup scripts (or just disable > muon) as a workaround, but I hope the above infos can help in reproducing/ > fixing the issue in a future boinc version. > > Speaking of versions: I'm using boinc 6.10.58 on gentoo-linux (amd64). > > > Regards, > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
