FreeRADIUS exiting with Signal 11 on FreeBSD

[Scott Lambert]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 02:14:25PM -0800, Danial wrote:
> 
> I've been having the same problem for quite some time.
> 
> I'm currently running FreeRADIUS 2.1.10 on i386 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. 
> Accounting packets are written file + two extra detail logs which are
> proxied.
> 
> For me I think this "Exiting normally" problem started happening after
> upgrading FreeBSD from either 7.x to 8 or 6.x to 7.x. 
> It's been happening for over a year now. Sometimes it happens three times a
> day and sometimes it runs fine for a month. 
> This accounts for the last two months:
> 
> Tue Oct 12 23:47:18 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Wed Oct 20 14:16:56 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Thu Oct 28 09:44:02 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Mon Nov 29 15:51:27 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Mon Nov 29 19:47:59 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Tue Nov 30 08:07:55 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Wed Dec  1 13:37:36 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Thu Dec  2 02:25:16 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Fri Dec  3 02:40:00 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Fri Dec  3 13:37:48 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Fri Dec  3 20:04:01 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> Sun Dec 12 07:30:27 2010 : Info: Exiting normally.
> 
> I don't see any system in the behaviour. It happens at random hours. 
> This is a secondary server, so the number of accounting requests per day
> varies between 0 and 20000, whereas on a normal day it serves around 100.
> 
> If nobody has a clue what might cause this behaviour, perhaps somebody is
> willing to support me/us in debugging this!

I've not had any issues with FreeRADIUS on FreeBSD 7 since version
2.0ish.  Around 2.0 FreeRADIUS ate memory and would be killed when
the box ran out of swap.  That was a known bug in FreeRADIUS and
since I upgraded beyond the fix for that, no problems.

What is logged in the 3 or 4 hundred lines before the exits?  Any
pattern in those messages?  What is logged in /var/log/messages at
those times?

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert at lambertfam.org