[IRCServices] Segfault on Opteron (64-bit) Linux

[Andrew Church]

>I'm trying to run ircservices on a dual opteron server and I'm getting 
>segfaults.  I've tried 5.0.31, 5.0.38, and 5.0.41 over the last few 
>months and just had enough time recently to try to debug.  The computer 
>is a dual Opteron 242 running Gentoo Linux.

     The most likely cause is that Services isn't compatible with 64-bit
processors, though to the best of my knowledge there shouldn't be any
issues (the warnings are harmless, unless the compiler is screwy).
Except...

>Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>0x0000002a956d63d0 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
>(gdb) bt
>#0  0x0000002a956d63d0 in strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
>#1  0x0000002a956aca46 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
>#2  0x0000002a956ae4f9 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
>#3  0x0000002a956aa34a in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
>#4  0x000000000040bf28 in vlogprintf (fmt=0x47e2dd "%s", args=0x7fbffff070)
>    at log.c:123
>#5  0x000000000040bff7 in logprintf (fmt=0x47e2dd "%s") at log.c:131
>#6  0x000000000040c018 in logputs (
>    str=0x7fbffff1a0 "[Oct 05 19:56:41.285530 2004] ") at log.c:137
>#7  0x000000000040c163 in write_time () at log.c:167
>#8  0x000000000040c46a in log (
>    fmt=0x47d8f0 "IRC Services %s starting up (options:%s%s%s)") at 
>log.c:287
>#9  0x00000000004097c7 in init (ac=3, av=0x7fbffff568) at init.c:756
>#10 0x000000000040cf78 in main (ac=3, av=0x7fbffff568, envp=0x7fbffff588)
>    at main.c:225

     This is puzzling; my gut instinct is to say that your libraries are
broken.

>Let me know if theres any other info you need or if you want access to 
>the machine to debug.

     Access to the machine would be appreciated--I don't have any 64-bit
machines handy.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/