Re: wheezy, message log being spammed by segfaults from apt_check.py

From	Johann Klammer <klammerj@a1.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: wheezy, message log being spammed by segfaults from apt_check.py
Date	2016-01-14 15:10 +0100
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On 01/14/2016 04:00 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> Intermittently but sometimes several times an hour from the times 
> recorded. The error portion of the logged line:word wrapped
> 
> segfault at 0 ip b7614966 sp bf9b64c8 error 6 in 
> libc-2.13.so[b759b000+15e000
> 
> No clue what an error 6 means. No errors shown in the man page, just mild 
> horn blowing.
> 
> And the segfault goes away if root runs it, so I have to assume root is 
> not running it.  Does anyone have a clue what I should be looking at and 
> what to check for?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 
segfaults are always bad. It's dereferencing a NULL pointer here.
the exact numbers are in some intel processor manual, 
but won't help you unless you want to debug the program. 
It's probably an at or cron job running this script. 
Perhaps something involved with auto-updating.

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Re: wheezy, message log being spammed by segfaults from apt_check.py Johann Klammer <klammerj@a1.net> - 2016-01-14 15:10 +0100
  Re: wheezy, message log being spammed by segfaults from apt_check.py Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-14 17:40 +0100
    Re: wheezy, message log being spammed by segfaults from apt_check.py Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-01-14 18:00 +0100

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