Thread: BUG #5862: Postgres dumps core upon a connection attempt

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      5862
Logged by:          Matt Zinicola
Email address:      matt@zinicola.com
PostgreSQL version: 9.0.3
Operating system:   Linux (Fedora 14, kernel 2.6.35-10-74), 64-bit
Description:        Postgres dumps core upon a connection attempt
Details:

A simple compile from source and install (as per usual) on Fedora 14 yielded
crashes of client applications attempting to connect.

I first observed this with archiveopeteryx.  As a sanity check, I then
attempted a connection with psql itself, which also crashed.

Please let me know if further information is needed.

On 03/02/11 04:07, Matt Zinicola wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference:      5862
> Logged by:          Matt Zinicola
> Email address:      matt@zinicola.com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.0.3
> Operating system:   Linux (Fedora 14, kernel 2.6.35-10-74), 64-bit
> Description:        Postgres dumps core upon a connection attempt
> Details:
>
> A simple compile from source and install (as per usual) on Fedora 14 yielded
> crashes of client applications attempting to connect.

Make sure you don't have any other PostgreSQL binaries or shared
libraries on your PATH that might be interfering with things. If you
installed to a --prefix you already had another postgresql install on,
this would explain the problem.

Once you've confirmed that's not the cause, you should get a backtrace
of the crash so it's possible to tell what happened. Enable core dumps
in your system, then attach gdb to a core dump and request a backtrace.
Let me know if you need a hand with that.

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