[asterisk-users] Asterisk 1.4.X support for Solaris 10?

[Frank Tarczynski]

I've been trying to get Asterisk 1.4.X running under Solaris 10 x86 with 
limited success.

I can build Asterisk and get it started but have run in to a problem 
with a segmentation fault with the "help" command in the CLI.

When I start Asterisk:

# ./asterisk -vvvgc
Asterisk 1.4.9, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2007 Digium, Inc. and others.
Created by Mark Spencer <markster at digium.com>
Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'core show warranty' 
for details.
This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public
License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it 
under
certain conditions. Type 'core show license' for details.
=========================================================================
  == Parsing '/var/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf': Found
.
.
.
  == Registered application 'Skel'
app_skel.so => (Skeleton (sample) Application)
Asterisk Ready.
*CLI>

If I type "help"

*CLI> help
                        !  Execute a shell command
               abort halt  Cancel a running halt
       ael debug contexts  Enable AEL contexts debug (does nothing)
.
.
.
                 say load  set/show the say mode
         show parkedcalls  Lists parked calls
Segmentation Fault - core dumped
#

This problem only seems to occur with the "help" command in the CLI.

gdb shows this:

gdb ./asterisk core
GNU gdb 6.2.1
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain 
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-pc-solaris2.10"...
Core was generated by `./asterisk -vvvgc'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1...done.
.
.
.
Loaded symbols for /opt/asterisk/lib/modules/app_skel.so
#0  0xfebd4d0c in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0xfebd4d0c in strlen () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#1  0xfec2a386 in _ndoprnt () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#2  0xfec2d4bb in vsnprintf () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#3  0x080e994a in ast_dynamic_str_thread_build_va (buf=0x817625b, max_len=0,
    ts=0x8149720, append=0, fmt=0x811eefd "%25.25s  %s\n",
    ap=0x8046f18 "Pb\027\b") at utils.c:969
#4  0x08089ad8 in ast_cli (fd=1, fmt=0x811eefd "%25.25s  %s\n") at cli.c:69
#5  0x0808d33e in help1 (fd=1, match=0x8047084, locked=1) at cli.c:1746
#6  0x0808d45f in handle_help (fd=1, argc=0, argv=0x8047080) at cli.c:1773
#7  0x0808e05c in ast_cli_command (fd=1, s=0x0) at cli.c:1979
#8  0x08074127 in main (argc=135688218, argv=0x80471fc) at asterisk.c:1388
(gdb) q
#

The segmentation fault is caused by the call to vsnprintf in this 
function in utils.c:

int ast_dynamic_str_thread_build_va(struct ast_dynamic_str **buf, size_t 
max_len,
        struct ast_threadstorage *ts, int append, const char *fmt, 
va_list ap)
{
        int res;
        int offset = (append && (*buf)->len) ? strlen((*buf)->str) : 0;
#if defined(DEBUG_THREADLOCALS)
        struct ast_dynamic_str *old_buf = *buf;
#endif /* defined(DEBUG_THREADLOCALS) */

        res = vsnprintf((*buf)->str + offset, (*buf)->len - offset, fmt, 
ap);

        /* Check to see if there was not enough space in the string 
buffer to prepare
         * the string.  Also, if a maximum length is present, make sure 
the current
         * length is less than the maximum before increasing the size. */
        if ((res + offset + 1) > (*buf)->len && (max_len ? ((*buf)->len 
< max_len) : 1)) {
                /* Set the new size of the string buffer to be the size 
needed
                 * to hold the resulting string (res) plus one byte for the
                 * terminating '\0'.  If this size is greater than the 
max, set
                 * the new length to be the maximum allowed. */
                if (max_len)
                        (*buf)->len = ((res + offset + 1) < max_len) ? 
(res + offset + 1) : max_len;
                else
                        (*buf)->len = res + offset + 1;

                if (!(*buf = ast_realloc(*buf, (*buf)->len + 
sizeof(*(*buf)))))
                        return AST_DYNSTR_BUILD_FAILED;

                if (append)
                        (*buf)->str[offset] = '\0';

                if (ts) {
                        pthread_setspecific(ts->key, *buf);
#if defined(DEBUG_THREADLOCALS)
                        __ast_threadstorage_object_replace(old_buf, 
*buf, (*buf)->len + sizeof(*(*buf)));
#endif /* defined(DEBUG_THREADLOCALS) */
                }

                /* va_end() and va_start() must be done before calling
                 * vsnprintf() again. */
                return AST_DYNSTR_BUILD_RETRY;
        }

        return res;
}

I think the fault is caused by a NULL pointer somewhere,but I can't 
figure-out what's wrong.

Can anyone help?

Frank