[Gluster-users] Unusual bug in glusterfsd

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

Hi Stuart,
This gets interesting. We still want to get down to core of this issue,
and see if we can detect this condition programmaticlly.
Thanks!
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Stuart Longland wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:13:13PM +0530, Anand Avati wrote:
>>>         The key error message seems to be this one (note the high negative
>>> maximum number):
>>>> 2008-08-24 18:11:45 E [protocol.c:342:gf_block_unserialize_transport]
>>> server: frame size (168) > max (-2147458000)
>>
>> This seems to be a compiler or build related issue. What is your nickname on
>> IRC? we could try to debug it online.. what architecture is this machine? I
>> remember another user having this issue on a mips machine but we could not
>> get around to actually debug it.
>>
>> avati
> 
> Hi Anand,
> 	I just had a look when you mentioned this -- seems on my laptop
> (working glusterfsd) I was using gcc 3.4.6 with vanilla specs.  On the
> web server (broken glusterfsd) it was using hardened specs (with stack
> protection and position independent executable options).  This is on
> x86.
> 
> 	I've just recompiled it using vanilla specs on the web server,
> having noticed another more subtle data truncation bug with the client.  Having
> tried connecting with another client on the network, I'm successfully able to
> mount the volumes from the webserver without issues.
> 
> 	I'll do some further investigations, but it seems the hardened toolchain
> in Gentoo would be a prime culprit here.
> 
> Regards,