bind 9.2.3 does not run threaded on Linux RH Enterprise

[Mats Dufberg]

On Sep 3, 2004, 11:24 (-0400) Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com> wrote:

>> We have Intel servers with dual CPU and hyper threading (4 logical CPU's)
>> running "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon)" with kernel
>> 2.4.26smp.
>> 
>> We want to run bind 9.2.3 threaded on those machines, so I've configured
>> with --enable-threads and compiled. There are no compilation error, but
>> when I execute bind it just starts and disappear. The only traces are the
>> following log entries
>> 
>>    ... named[28838]: starting BIND 9.2.3 -u named -c /etc/named.conf
>>    ... named[28838]: using 4 CPUs
>> 
>> I've tried to increase logging but no more traces are given.
>> 
>> We also tried BIND 9.2.4rc7 with the same result.
>> 
>> 
>> Does anybody have any information to share?
>
> Are you sure it's not running? You didn't specify the -f switch to run it in 
> the foregound. It might have daemonized itself and is actually running. I can 
> start BIND 9 on a few *nix variants and it will daemonize itself 
> automatically.

Yes, I'm sure that it is not running. But your suggestion with -f gives me 
some more information, bind returns with "sementation fault".



Mats

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