Re: Echocfg Error?
  By: Jeff Smith to Digital Man on Sun Jun 16 2019 07:58 pm

 > Hello Digital Man,
 >
 > > A backtrace from that core dump might be very helpful:
 > > http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:gdb
 > > You might also try running echocfg in one of the other '-i' modes (e.g.
 > > -is) and see if that avoid the issues.
 >
 > Ok... Here's a wierd one. I stopped the sbbs daemon. As suggested I edited
 > the sbbs file in /etc/init.d and uncommented the "ulimit -c unlimited" line.
 > I then added the following lines to the /etc/sysctl.conf file.
 >
 > # Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename.
 > # Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications.
 > kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
 > kernel.core_pattern = /tmp/core.%e.%p
 >
 > I then restarted the sbbs daemon. I then loaded ./echocfg which loaded ok.
 > Then exited echocfg and got no errors or faults. I then stopped the sbbs
 > daemon and commented out the "ulimit -c unlimited" line and restarted the
 > sbbs daemon. I reloaded and exited ./echocfg with no errors or faults. I
 > then stopped the daemon again and commented out the "kernel.core_uses_pid =
 > 1"  and "kernel.core_pattern = /tmp/core.%e.%p" line. Then restarted the
 > sbbs daemon again and loaded ./echocfg once again. Upon exiting I got the
 > following response
 >
 >
 > sbbs@bbs5:~/exec$ ./echocfg
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > Synchronet FidoNet Configuration  Version 3.06  Copyright 2019 Rob Swindell
 >
 > XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
 >       after 173 requests (173 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >
 > I did try the various display modes and none seemed to generate and errors.

So changing max core size (ulimit -c) for the sbbs daemon won't have any effect
 on the max core size for programs that you run from bash (echocfg).

Anyway, if you run echocfg from gdb and get a backtrace from the crash, please
share.

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