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Segmentation fault errors after BIND editing

Hi All,

It seems that I've botched up something on my new server. I had most of it working, and I was just tweaking the DNS settings. After I did a bind restart I saw my SMTP wasn't working. The errors were mainly showing that it couldn't get any updates from clamav. I did another restart of bind, and got:

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root@server1:/home/tom# /etc/init.d/bind9 restart

 * Stopping domain name service...                                       [ ok ]

/etc/init.d/bind9: line 17:  5652 Segmentation fault      sleep 2

 * Starting domain name service...                                                                                                                           /etc/init.d/bind9: line 17:  5818 Segmentation fault      mkdir -p /var/run/bind                                                                             /run

/etc/init.d/bind9: line 17:  5822 Segmentation fault      chmod 775 /var/run/bin                                                                             d/run

                                                                         [ ok ]

I did some research, and found others saying that they had similar problems that were fixed by making the bind directory world readable. The permissions are set like this now:

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root@server1:/var/run# ls -al

total 40

drwxr-xr-x 13 root   root    440 2007-10-21 06:25 .

drwxr-xr-x 14 root   root   4096 2007-10-03 20:17 ..

drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     60 2007-10-21 06:25 apache2

-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5 2007-10-21 06:25 apache2.pid

-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5 2007-10-20 10:49 atd.pid

drwxr-xr-x  3 root   root     60 2007-10-20 10:49 bind

drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root    140 2007-10-21 06:25 console

drwxr-xr-x  4 daemon daemon  240 2007-10-20 10:49 courier

-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5 2007-10-20 10:49 crond.pid

----------  1 root   root      0 2007-10-20 10:49 crond.reboot

drwxr-xr-x  2 klog   klog    100 2007-10-20 10:49 klogd

-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5 2007-10-20 10:49 mdadm.pid

drwxr-xr-x  2 mysql  root     80 2007-10-20 10:49 mysqld

drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     60 2007-10-21 10:12 network

drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     80 2007-10-20 23:59 proftpd

-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      6 2007-10-20 23:59 proftpd.pid

drwx--x---  2 root   sasl     40 2007-10-20 10:49 saslauthd

drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root     40 2007-10-20 10:49 sshd

-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      5 2007-10-20 10:49 sshd.pid

drwx------  3 root   root     60 2007-10-20 15:36 sudo

-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      6 2007-10-21 06:47 syslogd.pid

-rw-rw-r--  1 root   utmp   4992 2007-10-21 10:48 utmp



root@server1:/var/run/bind# ls -al

total 0

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  60 2007-10-20 10:49 .

drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 440 2007-10-21 06:25 ..

drwxrwxr-x  2 root bind  40 2007-10-20 22:13 run

Now if I try to use CHMOD on these directories, all I get is "Segmentation fault". The only other thing I did was use ISPConfig to add another domain to test with. Both of my test sites work when I try to access them through the web, I can still log into ISPConfig, and SSH just fine.
I just can't find what I messed up this time?

Please set the permissions of the bind directories as described in the perfect setup guide for your linux distribution. Then have a look at your named.log or syslog if bind logs any errors.

Make sure that you did not add a primary domain record and a secondary domain record for the smae domain on your server as this will cause bind to fail.

Hi Till

There aren't any bind errors in the syslog.

I know I don't have a primary and secondary record for the same domain.

When I set things up I used the perfect setup for a guide, and I set everything just as it said to do.

Things seem to be getting worse though. I can't log into ISPConfig now. All I get is a page of mysql errors. I tried to use SSH to /etc/init.d/mysql restart, and it gives me:

Code:

root@server1:/home/tom# /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.

/etc/init.d/mysql[5523]: ERROR: The partition with /var/lib/mysql is too full!

Now I know that partition can't be full!

Please post the output of:

df -h

did all the problems began after a restart? then the /var partition might be mounted read only.

Quote:

Originally Posted by till

Please post the output of:

df -h

It comes back only as: Segmentation fault

Quote:

Originally Posted by till

did all the problems began after a restart?

To tell you the truth, I really can't say. I was doing edits on the named.conf file, and then after I thought I had the right setup, I did a restart. I then edited /root/ispconfig/isp/conf/named.conf.master with my new setup. After that I added a new web site using the ISPConfig interface to see if it works. I think it was then that things started to fall appart.

Quote:

Originally Posted by till

then the /var partition might be mounted read only.

How do I check that?

I don't know if this helps, but I ran mount and it showed:

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/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)

proc on /proc type proc (rw)

/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)

varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw)

varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw)

procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

I've never used the rescue system before. I assume it's the one I get to by rebooting with the CD in and choosing rescue?

I did that, and it said it couldn't access any of the hard drive partitions.

I'm trying a couple of different boot disks to see if I can access anything.

This is getting really fun!
I can't get any of my live cd versions to work. It looks like none like my SATA hard drive controller. Could that be part of the problem?

I know that if I watch the monitor as the server booted up, back when it worked, it showed a bunch of drive errors: ata2: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/20 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ

I would like to try fsck, but I've never used it before, and the info about it on the web is not very helpful. I'm guessing I first need to be able to boot into something. I can get to the rescue section, but I can't get fsck to do anything there. It just keeps showing me it's help info. I'm also not to sure about how I need to mound the partition. I know I only have one on the servers drive.

You will have to be able to boot from a rescue system first, the partitions should not be mounted if you run fsck. If you have a ext3 filesystem for example, the fsck command will be something like:

fsck.ext3 /dev/hda

or

fsck.ext3 /dev/sda