Re: Segmentation Fault on Router [OT?]
classically out of disk space / out of memory / memory corruption
(memory getting broken).
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:22:39PM -0800, Doug_the_Slug wrote:
> sorry if this is OT, but this problem has occured on my debian router.
>
> simple home network setup. adsl in, p166-debian router running simple
> iptables with port forwarding for services. connects a couple dozen client
> machines to internet as a gateway. this machine has been routing net for
> 170 days now without many issues.
>
> the problem arised when i was looking into bandwidth monitoring. i use
> IPTraf for generic monitoring of the external eth device, but i also wanted
> to see if i could get logging for separate internal ip's. i'd seen someone
> one this list talk about ipaudit, but only quoted a sourceforge link. so -
>
> p166deb:~# apt-cache search ipaudit
> Segmentation fault
>
> segfault? i try a few other things, thinking i maybe have the wrong command
> somehow -
>
> p166deb:~# man apt-cache
> Reformatting apt-cache(8), please wait...
> /usr/bin/nroff: line 100: 986 Segmentation fault
> PATH=$GROFF_BIN_PATH:$PATH groff $safer -Wall -mtty-char $T $opts ${1+"$@"}
> Manual page apt-cache(8) line ?/? (END)
>
> segfault again!
>
> i start looking at logs for any clue. (really not sure _what_ to look
> for...) possible intrusion?
> so, less still works, top still works, IPTraf still works... but apt and
> man seem completely hosed.
>
> logs give me nothing - either there is nothing there for me to see, or i did
> not find what i needed to see.
>
> thoughts? [intruder? hardware? ??]
>
> -doug
>
>
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