Assertion failure: what to do next?

[Mark Andrews]

	Upgrade to BIND 9.4.2.

> 	For a change, I'm asking this time.
> 
> 	On one of our servers, named is hitting an assertion failure.
> 	I'm looking for hints.  More extensive help is of course also welcome.
> 
> 	During a scheduled restart of named on one of our servers,
> 	the following is written to the log.
> 
> Nov 30 14:57:07 keadeen named[7333]: shutting down: flushing changes
> Nov 30 14:57:07 keadeen named[7333]: stopping command channel on  
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Nov 30 14:57:07 keadeen named[7333]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
> Nov 30 14:57:07 keadeen named[7333]: no longer listening on  
> 137.43.116.39#53
> Nov 30 14:57:07 keadeen named[7333]: no longer listening on  
> 137.43.128.224#53
> Nov 30 14:57:07 keadeen named[7333]: no longer listening on  
> 137.43.128.11#53
> Nov 30 14:57:07 keadeen named[7333]: task.c:1234:
> 	INSIST((((manager->tasks).head == ((void *)0)) ? isc_boolean_true :  
> isc_boolean_false)) failed
> Nov 30 14:57:07 keadeen named[7333]: exiting (due to assertion failure)
> 
> 	A subsequent manual restart "just works".
> 
> 	The following additional information may be useful.
> 
> keadeen(noreilly)18: uname -a
> Linux keadeen.ucd.ie 2.4.21-27.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 1 21:59:02 EST  
> 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> keadeen(noreilly)18: cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 4)
> keadeen(noreilly)19: named -v
> BIND 9.4.1-P1
> keadeen(noreilly)20:
> 
> 	The system, according to 'top' or the like, has four "CPUs".
> 	IIUC, it actually has a pair of dual-core processors.
> 
> 	BIND was built from the ISC tarball using our SOP, as shown below.
> 
> ./configure --mandir=/usr/local/share/man
> make
> sudo bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh up
> make test
> sudo bin/tests/system/ifconfig.sh down
> make -n install
> sudo make install
> 
> 	As I recall, the only exceptions noted during testing were that several
> 	thread-related tests were bypassed.
> 
> 
> 	Best regards,
> 
> 	Niall O'Reilly
> 	University College Dublin IT Services
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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