[Pdns-users] Crash on startup

[Ben Damm]

Hi there,

  I've got a persistent problem with the debian-packaged version of
PowerDNS.  It used to be working fine, however after recent upgrades
(solved by downgrading, but I can't do that for very long) it crashes on
startup, producing the following in the system log.


Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]: PowerDNS 2.9.19 (C) 2001-2005
PowerDNS.COM BV (Jan  6 2006, 12:53:36, gcc 4.0.3 20051201 (prerelease)
(Debian 4.0.2-5)) starting up
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]: PowerDNS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO
WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
according to the terms of the GPL version 2.
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]: Creating backend connection for TCP
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]: [bindbackend] Parsing 30 domain(s),
will report when done
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap postfix/smtpd[18360]: lost connection after RCPT
from nsg93-1-82-67-182-127.fbx.proxad.net[82.67.182.127]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap postfix/smtpd[18360]: disconnect from
nsg93-1-82-67-182-127.fbx.proxad.net[82.67.182.127]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]: Got a signal 6, attempting to print trace:
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]: /usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance [0x809d18b]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]: [0xffffe420]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]: [0xffffe410]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(gsignal+0x51) [0xb7cae691]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(abort+0xeb) [0xb7caff5b]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__assert_fail+0x115) [0xb7ca7695]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_ZN12Bind2Backend6insertEiRKSsS1_S1_ii+0x4f3)
[0x80c3d13]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]: /usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance [0x80c3f19]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_ZN10ZoneParser5parseERKSsS1_j+0x65d)
[0x80d4ced]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_ZN12Bind2Backend10loadConfigEPSs+0x87f)
[0x80c62ff]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_ZN12Bind2BackendC1ERKSs+0x119) [0x80c8719]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_ZN12Bind2Factory4makeERKSs+0x1d) [0x80d04ad]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_ZN17BackendMakerClass3allEv+0xa1)
[0x8091391]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_ZN12UeberBackendC1ERKSs+0x170) [0x80a3ae0]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_ZN13PacketHandlerC1Ev+0x1d) [0x8077ccd]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_ZN13TCPNameserver2goEv+0x98) [0x807db38]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(_Z10mainthreadv+0x3a4) [0x80bd534]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(main+0x17f5) [0x80a0745]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd0) [0xb7c99eb0]
Jan 13 12:38:18 heap pdns[19718]:
/usr/sbin/pdns_server-instance(__gxx_personality_v0+0x105) [0x80605e1]

Any idea what this could be?  This problem has persisted over two
revisions of PowerDNS (2.9.19-2 and 2.9.19-3).

Thanks,
-Ben