Bug 862678

To which process belongs pid 30546?

And why does a process try to use /etc/initctl instead of /dev/initctl?

Please attach the core dump and the exact version of the systemd packages.

It is /dev/initctl, of course. Sorry. 

Happened again yesterday. Another symptom:
Many processes hang in '[defunct]' with parent pid 1.

/var/log/messages has:
2014-02-11T11:56:21.525652+01:00 d237 systemd[1]: Caught <SEGV>, dumped core as pid 10497.
2014-02-11T11:56:21.528194+01:00 d237 systemd[1]: Freezing execution.

ls -l /core
-rw------- 1 root root 18526208 Feb 11 11:56 /core

sudo file /core 
/core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from '/sbin/init showopts'

rpm -qi systemd
Name        : systemd
Version     : 208
Release     : 15.1
Architecture: i586
Install Date: Wed 22 Jan 2014 05:26:10 PM CET
Group       : System/Base
Size        : 6381939
License     : LGPL-2.1+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Mon 23 Dec 2013 03:21:11 PM CET, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM  : systemd-208-15.1.src.rpm
Build Date  : Mon 16 Dec 2013 05:11:13 PM CET
Build Host  : cloud135
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor      : openSUSE
URL         : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Summary     : A System and Session Manager
Description :
Systemd is a system and service manager, compatible with SysV and LSB
init scripts for Linux. systemd provides aggressive parallelization
capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services,
offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using
Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state,
maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate
transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a
drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
Distribution: openSUSE 13.1

(In reply to comment #2)

 linux:~ # /sbin/init showopts
 Expected single character argument.
 linux:~ # rpm -q --changelog systemd | head -n 3
 * Mon Feb 10 2014 werner@suse.de
 - Add patch 0145-logind-use-correct-who-enum-values-with-KillUnit.patch
   to be able to kill sessions (bnc#860574)

btw: Where is the core dump attached plus the used systemd version or install the debuginfo as well as the debugsource and help me to debug this.

Core file upload failed in bugzilla, after a long wait, sorry. It succeeds immediatly here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5uwtsqt1woyv1rc/systemd-init-core.10497

With the available debuginfo package, gdb can only say this:

Core was generated by `/sbin/init showopts'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  0xb7746424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) quit

A long list of zypper commands is suggested. They all fail to bring in additional debuginfo: E.g. No provider of 'debuginfo(build-id) = b76532d3fe2dbe8e7e7ad0a95ab07c019a3fbb67' found.

(In reply to comment #4)

What does

       rpm -qi systemd

show to you?  Please show me also.

Beside this you may miss some repositories like openSUSE-13.1-Debug and openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug

 ELF 32-bit LSB

Maybe a dup of bug #861488 ?

I've found

   http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/debug/update/13.1/i586/
   http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/update/13.1/i586/

very useful.  With this it should be possible to get the appropiate packages.

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> 
> What does
> 
>        rpm -qi systemd
> 
> show to you?  Please show me also.

> rpm -qi systemd
Name        : systemd
Version     : 208
Release     : 15.1
Architecture: i586
Install Date: Wed 22 Jan 2014 05:26:10 PM CET
Group       : System/Base
Size        : 6381939
License     : LGPL-2.1+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Mon 23 Dec 2013 03:21:11 PM CET, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284
Source RPM  : systemd-208-15.1.src.rpm
Build Date  : Mon 16 Dec 2013 05:11:13 PM CET
Build Host  : cloud135
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : http://bugs.opensuse.org
Vendor      : openSUSE
URL         : http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Summary     : A System and Session Manager
Description :
Systemd is a system and service manager, compatible with SysV and LSB
init scripts for Linux. systemd provides aggressive parallelization
capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services,
offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using
Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state,
maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate
transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a
drop-in replacement for sysvinit.
Distribution: openSUSE 13.1

Both openSUSE-13.1-Update-Debug and openSUSE-13.1-Debug from opensuse.org are already here. Thanks for the tip with gwdg! Now I can pull some of the dependencies that gdb asks for. Here is what I get:

#0  0xb7746424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xb7630276 in raise (sig=sig@entry=11)
    at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pt-raise.c:37
#2  0x08052a88 in crash (sig=11) at src/core/main.c:143
#3  <signal handler called>
#4  __strnlen_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/i386/i686/multiarch/strlen-sse2.S:125
#5  0xb74b47c6 in _IO_vfprintf_internal (s=s@entry=0xbfcfa920, 
    format=<optimized out>, 
    format@entry=0x8117dec "PRIORITY=%i\nSYSLOG_FACILITY=%i\n%s%.*s%s%s%.*i%s%s%.*s%s%s%.*s%sSYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=%s\n", ap=0xbfcfaa78 "V\216\021\b\326|\021\b\001", 
    ap@entry=0xbfcfaa64 "\006") at vfprintf.c:1629
#6  0xb756d580 in ___vsnprintf_chk (
    s=s@entry=0xbfcfadec "PRIORITY=6\nSYSLOG_FACILITY=3\nCODE_FILE=\bl", 
    maxlen=<optimized out>, maxlen@entry=2048, flags=flags@entry=1, 
    slen=slen@entry=4294967295, 
    format=format@entry=0x8117dec "PRIORITY=%i\nSYSLOG_FACILITY=%i\n%s%.*s%s%s%.*i%s%s%.*s%s%s%.*s%sSYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=%s\n", args=args@entry=0xbfcfaa64 "\006")
    at vsnprintf_chk.c:63
#7  0xb756d4a7 in ___snprintf_chk (
    s=s@entry=0xbfcfadec "PRIORITY=6\nSYSLOG_FACILITY=3\nCODE_FILE=\bl", 
    maxlen=maxlen@entry=2048, flags=flags@entry=1, slen=slen@entry=4294967295, 
    format=format@entry=0x8117dec "PRIORITY=%i\nSYSLOG_FACILITY=%i\n%s%.*s%s%s%.*i%s%s%.*s%s%s%.*s%sSYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=%s\n") at snprintf_chk.c:34
#8  0x080b8235 in snprintf (
    __fmt=0x8117dec "PRIORITY=%i\nSYSLOG_FACILITY=%i\n%s%.*s%s%s%.*i%s%s%.*s%s%s%.*s%sSYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=%s\n", __n=2048, 
    __s=0xbfcfadec "PRIORITY=6\nSYSLOG_FACILITY=3\nCODE_FILE=\bl")
    at /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:64
#9  log_do_header (
    header=header@entry=0xbfcfadec "PRIORITY=6\nSYSLOG_FACILITY=3\nCODE_FILE=\bl", level=level@entry=30, file=file@entry=0x80e5c6e "src/core/manager.c", 
    line=line@entry=1736, 
    func=func@entry=0x80e7556 <__func__.13183> "process_event", 
    object_name=object_name@entry=0x0, object=object@entry=0x0, size=2048)
    at src/shared/log.c:445
#10 0x080b99d9 in log_struct_internal (level=30, level@entry=6, 
    file=file@entry=0x80e5c6e "src/core/manager.c", line=line@entry=1736, 
    func=func@entry=0x80e7556 <__func__.13183> "process_event", 
    format=format@entry=0x80e6bf0 "MESSAGE_ID=%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x") at src/shared/log.c:750
#11 0x0805a66d in process_event (ev=0xbfcfb6a8, m=<optimized out>)
    at src/core/manager.c:1733
#12 manager_loop (m=0x8ddd658) at src/core/manager.c:1858
#13 0x080505e3 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfcfbbc4) at src/core/main.c:1652

Compare with https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861488#c5  ... 

I'd like to see this a duplicate ;)

dup of bnc #861488

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 861488 ***

Correct to the first occurrence

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 851044 ***

yes, its a dup. My machine: historic 32bit, Lenovo X60s.