Dear Klaus
Forgot to write you back otherday. I was able to trace the code that was crashing. It was trying to free a pointer that was null. I just added a null check. With this change, I am able to keep Kamailio up for longer duration, did not see the crash.
 
Thanks Klaus for your support.
kamal


 
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Klaus Darilion <klaus.mailinglists@pernau.at> wrote:
See also: http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/troubleshooting:corefiles



On 26.10.2012 11:39, Kamal Palei wrote:
Dear Klaus

I am little bit new to linux debugging. Please let me know below stuff.

1. Whats the extension of core file.
The core file does not have an extension, it is usally just called "core.XXXX" with XXX is the process id of the crashed Kamailio process. It will reside in the current working directory.


2. Will the core files be generated in /home/user path or some other
default path

In the /etc/init.d/kamailio startup file you can configure the core pattern to be set before Kamailio is started. Then the core files will use the defined naming.

On Debian also activate core dumps by editing /etc/default/kamailio


3. Do I need to recompile Kamailio source with -g option , or by default
it is compiled with -g option

From your log file:

         0(9548) ALERT: <core> [main.c:745]: core was generated

You see, your binaries already generate core files. Thus, there is no need to rebuild Kamailio.


4. I hope we need to run "ulimit" before we start the program or it is
not required.

Usually you run "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting the Kamailio process to be sure that the core will not be truncated.


My observation is if I run directly kamailio it is crashing, if I run
with gdb it is not crashing, not sure why this happens.

Strange. But once you have a core file, you can analyze it and generate the backtrace.

Also make sure to not mix openssl libraries - this is often a a problem.

regards
Klaus


Best Regards
kamal



On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Klaus Darilion
<klaus.mailinglists@pernau.at <mailto:klaus.mailinglists@pernau.at>> wrote:

    SIGABRT      6       Core    Abort signal from abort(3)

    This means that there was an error condition detected in the
    Kamailio code and the abort(3) function was called. As you see in
    the logs a core file was generated. Find the core file and load it
    into gdb and execute "backtrace". It will show you were the problem
    happened and post it here.

    regards
    Klaus


    On 25.10.2012 16:23, Kamal Palei wrote:

        Dear Klaus
        The certificate verification I have disabled.

        Facing a new problem.
        When there is a connection reset, that time Kamailio is crashing.
        During crash, I get below logs. Any idea why it is crashing and
        how can
        I avoid it.

        /oot@B2BUA:/usr/local/src/__scripts#  9(9557) : <core>


        [mem/q_malloc.c:431]: BUG: qm_free: bad pointer (nil) (out of memory
        block!) - aborting
           0(9548) ALERT: <core> [main.c:742]: child process 9557 exited
        by a
        signal 6
           0(9548) ALERT: <core> [main.c:745]: core was generated
           0(9548) INFO: <core> [main.c:757]: INFO: terminating due to
        SIGCHLD
           6(9554) INFO: <core> [main.c:808]: INFO: signal 15 received
           8(9556) INFO: <core> [main.c:808]: INFO: signal 15 received
           4(9552) INFO: <core> [main.c:808]: INFO: signal 15 received
           5(9553) INFO: <core> [main.c:808]: INFO: signal 15 received
           3(9551) INFO: <core> [main.c:808]: INFO: signal 15 received
           7(9555) INFO: <core> [main.c:808]: INFO: signal 15 received
           1(9549) INFO: <core> [main.c:808]: INFO: signal 15 received
           2(9550) INFO: <core> [main.c:808]: INFO: signal 15 received
           0(9548) : <core> [mem/q_malloc.c:431]: BUG: qm_free: bad
        pointer (nil)
        (out of memory block!) - aborting


        THANKS
        kamal
        /
        On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Klaus Darilion
        <klaus.mailinglists@pernau.at
        <mailto:klaus.mailinglists@pernau.at>
        <mailto:klaus.mailinglists@__pernau.at

        <mailto:klaus.mailinglists@pernau.at>>> wrote:

             Hi Kamal!

             Are you familiar with SSL/TLS and certificates? With TLS
        the trust
             between TLS server and TLS client is usually via a trusted
             certification authority (CA). For example, if the
        intermediate proxy
             uses a certificate which is issued by CA FOOBAR-XYZ, the
        you have to
             configure Kamailio to accept certificates singed by
        FOOBAR-XYZ. This
             is done by copying the public root certificate of
        FOOBAR-XYZ to the
             Kamailio server and configure Kamailio to use the FOOBAR-XYZ
             certificate as trusted CA. Of course then you automatically
        also
             trust all others certificates issued by FOOBAR-XYZ.

             To configure the trusted CAs use:
        http://kamailio.org/docs/____modules/3.3.x/modules/tls.____html#ca_list
        <http://kamailio.org/docs/__modules/3.3.x/modules/tls.__html#ca_list>



        <http://kamailio.org/docs/__modules/3.3.x/modules/tls.__html#ca_list
        <http://kamailio.org/docs/modules/3.3.x/modules/tls.html#ca_list>>

             You could also disable the certificate validation with:
        http://kamailio.org/docs/____modules/3.3.x/modules/tls.____html#verify_certificate
        <http://kamailio.org/docs/__modules/3.3.x/modules/tls.__html#verify_certificate>



        <http://kamailio.org/docs/__modules/3.3.x/modules/tls.__html#verify_certificate
        <http://kamailio.org/docs/modules/3.3.x/modules/tls.html#verify_certificate>>

             But of course this reduces TLS benefits to encryption-only.

             regards
             Klaus


             On 22.10.2012 13:53, Kamal Palei wrote:

                 Dear All
                 I have modified kamailio,cfg and compiled all the
        modules with TLS
                 enabled, and able to bring up the kamailio proxy properly.

                 Kamailio proxy will receive the REGISTER message from
        endpoints
                 in UDP ,
                 and want to send this REGISTER message to another
        intermediate
                 proxy in
                 TLS. For this purpose, I have added few lines in
        kamailio.cfg
                 file as below.

                 I have created the certificates, private keys as
        explained by README
                 file in kamailio-3.1.5/modules/tls/ path.

                           if(is_method("REGISTER"))
                           {
                                   t_relay_to("tls:115.114.48.75
        <http://115.114.48.75>:____443

                 <http://115.114.48.75:443>

                 <http://115.114.48.75:443>");

                                   exit();
                           }

                 Looks like this is taking effect. When Kamailio
        receives REGISTER
                 message it is trying to do handshake with intermediate
        proxy.
                 I used wireshark to see the handshake messages.

                 1. From Kamailio proxy, a TCP SYNC message is going to
                 intermediate proxy.
                 2. intermediate proxy sends SYNC + ACK
                 3. Kamailio sends CLIENT HELLO
                 4. intermediate proxy sends SERVER HELLO, CERTIFICATE
        and SERVER
                 HELLO DONE
                 5. The Kamailio sends ALERT (Level: Fatal, Description:
        Unknown CA)
                 --->  IS something going wrong here..............
                 6. Then Kamailio sends FIN + ACK

                 Can somebody please let me know why the certificate
        verification
                 fails
                 (I get this log in console).
                 How can I put a work around to avoid certification
        verification
                 failure.

                 Best Regards
                 kamal




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