Hi folks,

Got a weird problem that seems to have just started to manifest itself
on my slimserver. Not sure when it started, but I seem to have the
problem with all versions of 6.1.1 upwards (not tried going back yet),
including the latest 6.2 nightlies.

I have a CGI that uses the CLI to display a list of players and what's
playing on them. This has worked fine for a couple of years with the
only change being to add authentication when that was added to the CLI.
I noticed that occasionally the server would crash inexplicably and
narrowed it down to when the CGI script was being called.

I've run the server with --d_cli and get varying degrees of output
(sometimes none) but they all end in this error message:

panic: sv_setpvn called with negative strlen at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/Encode.pm line 149

Now this looks like some lower level Perl problem and I have tried
re-compiling Perl to no avail. The problem still seems to be there.
It's not totally consistent - e.g. when the server is scanning the
library it doesn't always crash and I've had some days when it doesn't
either.

I have AlienBBC installed and I know a similar error was reported here
with AlienBBC recently, but the problem occurs when I have a clean
install of slimserver with nothing but the distribution there. There
are also no debug outputs of the cli or the plugins prior to the crash
to indicate anything gowing awry there.

My server is Fedora Core 3, pretty much out of the box (although it has
an updated patched kernel).

Any ideas where to start ? 

..Iain


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iain
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