[Openswan Users] endless loop pluto keeps crashing and trying to restart

[Brian Gustin]

Thanks Roberto- we'll try that and see if we can make progress from there.

Ive never used gdb for debugging before, usually I read the source code 
and see what sets the error status... (its one of the things I hate 
about apache too - no documentation of what the numbers/constants *mean* 
- could have simplified debugging issues so *many* times in the past...)

Anyhow, I'll see if I can rebuild from source as suggested and get a 
fresh debug core dump.. probably faster than digging through a mile of 
unfamiliar source code. :)


Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:19:41PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Brian Gustin wrote:
>>
>>> OK.. if you mean the source code directory, I dont have that on this
>>> machine- it is a debian packaged install, (apt-get install openswan)
>> I did. I don't know how debian packages debug info for packages. On
>> fedora you can install the debug package to get symbols for gdb.
>>
>>> I havent yet found the source code for that- either way there is no
>>> openswan-2.x.y./OBJ*/programs/pluto/ directory, so I guess, have to
>>> figure this out the hard way.
>> It's the source/build directory.
>>
> Unfortunately, Debian does not ship a debug package for openswan.  It
> might not hurt to file a wishlist bug requesting such a package.
> However, in the meantime, the debug info can be had by rebuilding the
> source package with the nostrip option passed to dpkg-buildpackage.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
> 
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