[tpop3d-discuss]Tpop3d w/ssl crashes after Portscan

Chris Lightfoot chris at madingley.org
Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:49:04 +0000


On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 03:40:20PM +0100, Martin Schmitt wrote:
> Hallo Chris Lightfoot,
> dear Chris Lightfoot,
> 
> * chris@ex-parrot.com wrote/schrieb:
> 
> >   - in gdb, do
> > 
> >     gdb /path/to/tpop3d /path/to/core
> > 
> >     then at the (gdb) prompt type `bt' and send me what it
> >     prints;
> 
> YIKES!!! :->
> 
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xfef33084 in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #1  0xfef82c58 in _doprnt () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #2  0xfef84dcc in vsnprintf () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
> #3  0x0002a9b4 in verrprintf (fmt=0x104400 "quit: signal 11 post_fork = 0",
>     ap=0x7fffffff) at logging.c:105
> (gdb)
> 
> Is this helpful?

Sadly no -- it's the right sequence of steps, but in this
case the debugger has just captured the stack in the
context of the signal handler, rather than whatever caused
the crash :(

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