[SATLUG] Mysterious cron problem

Sean Carolan scarolan at gmail.com
Fri May 18 14:08:29 CDT 2007


I attached strace to the cron process to see if I could find a clue
why this isn't working.  What I found was cron spawns child processes
that die with a Segmentation fault each time.  Here is an example -
any ideas how I should proceed?  I think it might be something to do
with my /etc/localtime file:

12195 time(NULL)                        = 1179512341
12195 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) = 0
12195 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) = 0
12195 stat64("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279, ...}) = 0
12195 send(7, "<83>May 18 13:19:01 CRON[12195]:"..., 108, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 108
12195 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
6365  <... nanosleep resumed> 0xbff386b4) = ? ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK (To be resta
rted)
6365  --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
6365  waitpid(-1, [{WIFSIGNALED(s) && WTERMSIG(s) == SIGSEGV && WCOREDUMP(s)}],
WNOHANG) = 12195


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