Bug 14785

Summary: PPP userland/client crashes
Product: Base System Reporter: Klaus-Juergen Wolf <kjwolf>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3.3-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Klaus-Juergen Wolf 1999-11-08 19:10:00 UTC 
Very difficult: PPP crashes and throws core after a short time of usage
- as of the (unchanged) selfmade distribution CD-ROM, or even after
being recompiled from /usr/src again. After being re-compiled with
CFLAGS="-g -pipe" for debugging purposes, there are no such problems,
i.e. it is no post-mortem debugging possible (>six weeks of trial).
Multiply tried since 3.3-RELEASE, problem remains the same. PR 14145 &
fix possibly reduced the frequency.

Known since 3.3-RELEASE (not the pre-3.3 testing versions before).
Maybe a compiler/code incompatibility problem?

Fix: 

Unknown.
How-To-Repeat: 
Unknown. Try using the optimized executable of ppp and you might see.
Comment 1 Brian Somers 1999-11-09 00:56:31 UTC 
[.....]
> Very difficult: PPP crashes and throws core after a short time of usage
> - as of the (unchanged) selfmade distribution CD-ROM, or even after
> being recompiled from /usr/src again. After being re-compiled with
> CFLAGS="-g -pipe" for debugging purposes, there are no such problems,
> i.e. it is no post-mortem debugging possible (>six weeks of trial).
> Multiply tried since 3.3-RELEASE, problem remains the same. PR 14145 &
> fix possibly reduced the frequency.
> 
> Known since 3.3-RELEASE (not the pre-3.3 testing versions before).
> Maybe a compiler/code incompatibility problem?
[.....]

Can you try the version from my website ?  There were a few nasty 
bugs fixed recently (just before FreeBSDCon) that I haven't yet 
brought back into RELENG_3 (it's about time I did).

> Unknown. Try using the optimized executable of ppp and you might see.

I haven't run an optimised ppp in about 3 years :o)

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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Comment 2 Brian Somers freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1999-12-30 03:47:27 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

The problem should be gone now.  Can the originator re-test and confirm ? 
Thanks.
Comment 3 Brian Somers freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-03-27 16:59:46 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

No response from the originator - believed fixed