rsyslog SEGFAULT

[medic]

(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fc40669c700 (LWP 12468)]
0x00007fc40770cbba in hash () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007fc40770cbba in hash () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
#1 0x00007fc40770ce35 in hashtable_search () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
#2 0x00007fc4076e4205 in ?? () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
#3 0x00007fc4076e48f4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
#4 0x00000000004397e6 in ?? ()
#5 0x00007fc40850fe9a in start_thread (arg=0x7fc40669c700) at pthread_create.c:308
#6 0x00007fc407e30cbd in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:112
#7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

[2024589.279051] init: rsyslog main process ended, respawning
[2024589.537860] init: rsyslog main process (16703) killed by SEGV signal
[2024589.537890] init: rsyslog main process ended, respawning
[2024589.576948] init: rsyslog main process (16717) killed by SEGV signal
[2024589.576973] init: rsyslog main process ended, respawning
[2024589.610687] init: rsyslog main process (16728) killed by SEGV signal
[2024589.610749] init: rsyslog main process ended, respawning
[2024589.647149] init: rsyslog main process (16739) killed by SEGV signal
[2024589.647193] init: rsyslog respawning too fast, stopped

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu9.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-20.31-generic 3.5.7.1
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 9 21:10:27 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: rsyslog
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-20 (50 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.rsyslog: 2009-11-02T17:12:16.656036
mtime.conffile..etc.rsyslog.conf: 2012-06-01T12:07:37.874075

[medic (medic123)]

2892.027091010:7ffff633b700: file to log to: /dev/tty8
2892.027095560:7ffff633b700: write to stream, pData->pStrm 0x679510, lenBuf 66
2892.027100215:7ffff633b700: action 0x679b40 call returned -2121
2892.027105135:7ffff633b700: strm 0x679510: file 11(tty8) flush, buflen 66
2892.027117355:7ffff633b700: strm 0x679510: file 11 write wrote 66 bytes
2892.027123425:7ffff633b700: Action 0x679b40 transitioned to state: rdy
2892.027128445:7ffff633b700: ruleset: get iRet 0 from rule.ProcessMsg()
2892.027133026:7ffff633b700: ruleset.ProcessMsg() returns 0
2892.027137756:7ffff633b700: regular consumer finished, iret=0, szlog 0 sz phys 1
2892.027142871:7ffff633b700: we deleted 1 objects and enqueued 0 objects
2892.027147486:7ffff633b700: delete batch from store, new sizes: log 0, phys 0
2892.027152646:7ffff633b700: regular consumer finished, iret=4, szlog 0 sz phys 0
2892.027157221:7ffff633b700: main Q:Reg/w0: worker IDLE, waiting for work.
[New Thread 0x7ffff5b3a700 (LWP 21533)]
2892.027793046:7ffff5b3a700: --------imuxsock calling select, active file descriptors (max 7): 7
[New Thread 0x7ffff5339700 (LWP 21534)]
2892.028279839:7ffff7fcb700: initialization completed, transitioning to regular run mode
2892.489722918:7ffff5b3a700: Message from UNIX socket: #7
2892.489750488:7ffff5b3a700: XXX: pre CM loop, length of control message 32
2892.489762113:7ffff5b3a700: XXX: in CM loop, 1, 2
2892.489772789:7ffff5b3a700: XXX: got credentials pid 21535
2892.489783209:7ffff5b3a700: XXX: post CM loop

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7ffff5b3a700 (LWP 21533)]
0x00007ffff6baabba in hash () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff6baabba in hash () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
#1 0x00007ffff6baae35 in hashtable_search () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
#2 0x00007ffff6b82205 in ?? () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
#3 0x00007ffff6b828f4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/rsyslog/imuxsock.so
#4 0x00000000004397e6 in ?? ()
#5 0x00007ffff79ade9a in start_thread (arg=0x7ffff5b3a700) at pthread_create.c:308
#6 0x00007ffff72cecbd in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:112
#7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

[medic (medic123)]

i got it :-(

$SystemLogRateLimitInterval 999999999999999999999

is way too high :(

but it should not segfault, i guess

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.