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  67647   Sun Jan 12 04:48:12 2014 Reply Hung Daohungtdao@yahoo.comBug reportWindows2.9.2Re: Crash report involving propagate and replies

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Hung Dao wrote:

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Stephen wrote:

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

Stephen wrote:
Using Elog 2.9.2
Elog crashes when making 10 replies, I narrowed the crash down to the Propagate Attributes setting.
I have an attribute "Status" that can be toggled between "Open" and "Closed" and that propagates all replies.  On the 10th reply the application crashed, this is repeatable 100% of the time.  Without the propagate option everything works fine.
Attached is my config file parsed down.
Is there a way around this, or is there a way on reply to change the attribute of the log note you replied to from open to closed without using the propagate option?

 
Bad news: I cannot reproduce your problem with the latest elog version 2.9.2 (e7ba466) on scientific linux 6.0
I had to remove some lines in your config, since I don't have your password file.
I'll attach the config file, please have a look if it crashes on your server with the latest elogd version.
 
Andreas
 
 

 Thanks for the reply, I tried the very basic cfg and the second one you offered.  Running 2.9.2-2475 on a Windows 2008 R2 V.Server, I still crashed on attempt 10 never fail.  Windows detects the failure and gives this message:
Faulting application name: elogd.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x51248707
Faulting module name: elogd.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x51248707
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x00065127
Faulting process id: 0x340
Faulting application start time: 0x01ceefa87fea0aea
Faulting application path: D:\ELOG\elogd.exe
Faulting module path: D:\ELOG\elogd.exe
Report Id: ceccc3da-5b9b-11e3-80f1-5ac95c924b0b
It only happens when propagate is on, I have to be missing some security setting in Windows maybe?  Don't know if that helped at all, but I'm out of ideas. 

Can you compile elog? Then I would suggest that you download the latest version from GIT an recompile it. You'll find help for that here: https://midas.psi.ch/elog/download.html
I have no experience with compilation on Windows (I try not to touch it, and if I have to I use a long stick ;-)
 
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 I have been able to compile Elogd successfully in Windows with Visual Studio 2010 but not with Elog.  Attached are errors, it complaint about buffer[i] type char * being assigned type void *.  If anyone has been successful compile the elog, please give me a hint.  Thanks.

You don't need "elog" to run the logbook, the executable "elog" is only needed to create entries without the web interface. Stefan should adapt "elog.c" some day to be compatible with the default switches of modern, paranoid compilers; but for the moment you can ignore this.

 
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If you use the newly created "elogd", does that reproduce the former problem?

 I don't see it has crashed when testing your cfg.  However, one thing I must do is to comment out the alarm_handler function in order to compile the elogd successfully.  Otherwise, it shows an undefined alarm, see in the 2nd attachment.  Although it did not crash as tested with your cfg, I have experienced the new version sometimes crashed on our system but then it self restarted (different scenario since my cfg does not use Propagate.  I have not been able to narrow down yet.

  67648   Mon Jan 13 09:01:31 2014 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportWindows2.9.2Re: Crash report involving propagate and replies

 I don't see it has crashed when testing your cfg.  However, one thing I must do is to comment out the alarm_handler function in order to compile the elogd successfully.  Otherwise, it shows an undefined alarm, see in the 2nd attachment.  Although it did not crash as tested with your cfg, I have experienced the new version sometimes crashed on our system but then it self restarted (different scenario since my cfg does not use Propagate.  I have not been able to narrow down yet.

Yes, the alarm() function is wrong here. I removed it from the Windows version and committed the code to GIT. 

  67649   Mon Jan 13 09:30:09 2014 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportWindows2.9.2Re: Crash report involving propagate and replies

Stephen wrote:

Using Elog 2.9.2

Elog crashes when making 10 replies, I narrowed the crash down to the Propagate Attributes setting.

I have an attribute "Status" that can be toggled between "Open" and "Closed" and that propagates all replies.  On the 10th reply the application crashed, this is repeatable 100% of the time.  Without the propagate option everything works fine.

Attached is my config file parsed down.

Is there a way around this, or is there a way on reply to change the attribute of the log note you replied to from open to closed without using the propagate option?

Was a tricky problem. When you use "Propagate Attributes", a routine is called inside elogd which recursively goes through all replies. It uses quite some memory for temporary storage of attributes and attachments. So after a certain time you get a stack overflow since you run out of memory. Since the stack size is different under different operating systems, it was hard for me to reproduce it initially. Now I use some different memory (dynamic heap instead stack) which should fix the problem. Can you pull from GIT and give it a try?

/Stefan 

  67659   Fri Jan 24 18:59:17 2014 Reply Stephenswgallman@bpa.govBug reportWindows2.9.2Re: Crash report involving propagate and replies

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Stephen wrote:

Using Elog 2.9.2

Elog crashes when making 10 replies, I narrowed the crash down to the Propagate Attributes setting.

I have an attribute "Status" that can be toggled between "Open" and "Closed" and that propagates all replies.  On the 10th reply the application crashed, this is repeatable 100% of the time.  Without the propagate option everything works fine.

Attached is my config file parsed down.

Is there a way around this, or is there a way on reply to change the attribute of the log note you replied to from open to closed without using the propagate option?

Was a tricky problem. When you use "Propagate Attributes", a routine is called inside elogd which recursively goes through all replies. It uses quite some memory for temporary storage of attributes and attachments. So after a certain time you get a stack overflow since you run out of memory. Since the stack size is different under different operating systems, it was hard for me to reproduce it initially. Now I use some different memory (dynamic heap instead stack) which should fix the problem. Can you pull from GIT and give it a try?

/Stefan 

 Unfortunately, I am a little outside of my element when trying to compile it.  I will ask around and see if someone here could give me a hand.  Thanks for looking into this for me.

 

PS.  If anyone else has managed to compile this could you give me a hand =)

  67660   Wed Jan 29 17:13:55 2014 Reply Stephenswgallman@bpa.govBug reportWindows2.9.2Re: Crash report involving propagate and replies

Stephen wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Stephen wrote:

Using Elog 2.9.2

Elog crashes when making 10 replies, I narrowed the crash down to the Propagate Attributes setting.

I have an attribute "Status" that can be toggled between "Open" and "Closed" and that propagates all replies.  On the 10th reply the application crashed, this is repeatable 100% of the time.  Without the propagate option everything works fine.

Attached is my config file parsed down.

Is there a way around this, or is there a way on reply to change the attribute of the log note you replied to from open to closed without using the propagate option?

Was a tricky problem. When you use "Propagate Attributes", a routine is called inside elogd which recursively goes through all replies. It uses quite some memory for temporary storage of attributes and attachments. So after a certain time you get a stack overflow since you run out of memory. Since the stack size is different under different operating systems, it was hard for me to reproduce it initially. Now I use some different memory (dynamic heap instead stack) which should fix the problem. Can you pull from GIT and give it a try?

/Stefan 

 Unfortunately, I am a little outside of my element when trying to compile it.  I will ask around and see if someone here could give me a hand.  Thanks for looking into this for me.

 

PS.  If anyone else has managed to compile this could you give me a hand =)

 This resolved the issue, thanks for the help.  I have tested it on server machines and was able to go over 10 each time.

 

Thank you for resolving this issue for me.

  67661   Mon Feb 3 22:45:10 2014 Reply Hung Daohungtdao@yahoo.comBug reportWindows2.9.2Re: Crash report involving propagate and replies

Stephen wrote:

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Stephen wrote:

Using Elog 2.9.2

Elog crashes when making 10 replies, I narrowed the crash down to the Propagate Attributes setting.

I have an attribute "Status" that can be toggled between "Open" and "Closed" and that propagates all replies.  On the 10th reply the application crashed, this is repeatable 100% of the time.  Without the propagate option everything works fine.

Attached is my config file parsed down.

Is there a way around this, or is there a way on reply to change the attribute of the log note you replied to from open to closed without using the propagate option?

Was a tricky problem. When you use "Propagate Attributes", a routine is called inside elogd which recursively goes through all replies. It uses quite some memory for temporary storage of attributes and attachments. So after a certain time you get a stack overflow since you run out of memory. Since the stack size is different under different operating systems, it was hard for me to reproduce it initially. Now I use some different memory (dynamic heap instead stack) which should fix the problem. Can you pull from GIT and give it a try?

/Stefan 

 Unfortunately, I am a little outside of my element when trying to compile it.  I will ask around and see if someone here could give me a hand.  Thanks for looking into this for me.

 

PS.  If anyone else has managed to compile this could you give me a hand =)

 I was able to manage and compile the latest code from GIT.  It runs fine so far.  Just a hint, in order to compile successfully, there are some steps that you may need to modify your header file depend on how you store your mxml, krb5, OpenSSL files and directories.

  1009   Thu Mar 24 10:39:00 2005 Smile Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinux Re: Crash with Protect Selection page = 1
> Using 2.5.8, if I set "Protect Selection page" to 1, then elogd seg faults
> as soon as it is accessed.

Thanks for reporting this bug. I fixed it and committed the change to CVS.

- Stefan
  1011   Thu Mar 24 11:00:59 2005 Smile Emiliano GabrielliAlberT@SuperAlberT.itBug reportLinux Re: Crash with Protect Selection page = 1
> > Using 2.5.8, if I set "Protect Selection page" to 1, then elogd seg faults
> > as soon as it is accessed.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this bug. I fixed it and committed the change to CVS.
> 
> - Stefan

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