Hi, I am the creator of bug #715 (https://wwws.clamav.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=715) which requested IPv6 support in freshclam. As it got integrated in r3940 I created custom .deb packages and installed them on both of my testhosts
* #1 Debian Lenny VM (KVM), i386 * #2 Ubuntu Hardy VM (Xen), amd64 both freshclam.conf files point to db.ipv6.clamav.net rotation. #2 has never been upgraded and still runs r3940 without any apparent problems. I've rebuilt the Debian packages using the current trunk revision for #1 several times and noticed that freshclam started to crash every now and then recently. I'm pretty sure it has started with revision r3947 which integrated a new mirror loadbalancing code. Here is a collection of debugging information I've sent to #clamav, I think it's better suited here on the ML. gdb bt (r3955): http://sial.org/pbot/31610 valgrind (r3976): http://pastebin.ca/1080097 I've tried to understand the code but I don't think it should be happening. I've added a few debug printf-statements and it looks like the tempname variable in freshclam/manager.c:getpatch() gets trashed, it is fine before and when calling getfile() in manager.c:904, fine throughout the whole getfile() function (I've added a printf right before return there) but is trashed at the following open statement in manager.c:912. Partial strace for this is write(1, "Downloading daily-7743.cdiff [10"..., 36) = 36 open(0x303431, O_RDONLY) = -1 EFAULT (Bad address) --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- so it looks like something is overwriting the pointer. I'm not an experienced C coder so I'm stuck here, maybe someone more experienced can have a look at this. Crashes don't happen always, I've had cases where freshclam crashed repeatedly directly at startup, but sometimes it took a couple of hours or even days before it crashed. But the bogus pointer 0x303431 seems to be stable. Regards, Bernhard _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net