[Asterisk-Dev] Occasional yet persistant Seg fault, memory corruption? Memory overwritten

[David P. Boswell]

I had the exact problem a few weeks ago.  I found that if I do not do a reload
it has gone away.  Haven't had a chance to track down where the corruption
happens with my config yet.


At Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:09:28 -0400,
asterisk at billheckel.com wrote:
> 
> I have a persistant, occasional segfault that appears to be caused by memory corruption but it
> doesn't seem like SEU or single bit errors ( typical of hardware ).
> 
> I have crashes approximately once per 2 days often in small clusters then it works perfectly for a
> while.
> 
> Each crash produces a backtrace full of invalid pointers and strange values.
> 
> The crashes are always in different places but have some things in common.
> 1.  It's quite often in int_free()
> 2.  Usually accompanied by junk pointers.
> 3.  ast_spawn_extension has been called with the same bogus value ( each time it differs ) for all
> parameters
>