Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux Support Pack 1
May 2013 Scheduled Maintenance update
May 2013 Scheduled Maintenance update
Situation
In an specific deployment, where the environment consists of 'frozen' patch levels, it has been observed that incidentally tsafs is crashing with a "signal 11, Segmentation fault", exhibiting the following back trace:
#bt
#0 0xf605f06c in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libtsafs.so
#1 0xf602c4ca in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libtsafs.so
#2 0xf7733574 in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#3 0xf7739c84 in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#4 0xf770d7ab in SMtgtrsp_ServiceIPC () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#5 0xf7707973 in SMrsp_Respond () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#6 0xf76fb691 in SMchild_Main () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#7 0xf771e848 in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#8 0xf768d809 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#9 0xf74a130e in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
#bt
#0 0xf605f06c in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libtsafs.so
#1 0xf602c4ca in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libtsafs.so
#2 0xf7733574 in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#3 0xf7739c84 in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#4 0xf770d7ab in SMtgtrsp_ServiceIPC () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#5 0xf7707973 in SMrsp_Respond () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#6 0xf76fb691 in SMchild_Main () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#7 0xf771e848 in ?? () from /opt/novell/lib/libsmdr.so.0
#8 0xf768d809 in start_thread () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#9 0xf74a130e in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
Resolution
Reported to engineering.