srdan.dukic at gmail
Feb 7, 2010, 5:42 PM
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Re: Error - Aack,_child_crashed._(#4.3.0)
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On 8 February 2010 12:00, Srdan Dukic <srdan.dukic [at] gmail> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I've recently started seeing the following error in the qmail logs:
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> delivery 13230: deferral: _/_/_/_//////Aack,_child_crashed._(#4.3.0)/
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> From my understanding this occurs when qmail delivers to a .qmail file
> that specifies a pipe to another program and when this program
> crashes, it is reported as a child crashing.
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> My problem is that there are several programs which are getting piped
> to and isolating which of these programs is crashing is proving to be
> rather difficult. Does anyone have any tips/tricks which might help to
> track down exactly which program is crashing? Also, if I'm wrong in my
> assumptions about this message only appearing when output is piped to
> a child process through a .qmail file, please tell me.
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>
> Thank you
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> Srđan Đukić
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Hi,
I've just figured out which program is causing the problems by tailing
the 'messages' log. It turned out that the program was segfaulting
causing a kernel error.
Thank you
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Srđan Đukić
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