nginx core dump after FreeBSD version upgrade

[Sergey A. Osokin]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:54:39PM -0400, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a big issue or not, but here goes:
> 
> Yesterday I upgraded from FreeBSD 8.0 to 8.1. At the final reboot nginx 
> did not start and gave a core dump. I had built nginx using gcc 4.5.1. 
> Rebuilding from source cleared the problem. Logs show nothing as nginx 
> never started.
> 
> # nginx -V
> nginx version: nginx/0.8.48
> TLS SNI support enabled
> configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx --with-cc-opt='-I 
> /usr/local/include' --with-ld-opt='-L /usr/local/lib' 
> --conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf 
> --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid 
> --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx-error.log --user=www --group=www 
> --with-file-aio --with-ipv6 
> --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client_body_temp 
> --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi_temp 
> --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy_temp 
> --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/scgi_temp 
> --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi_temp 
> --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx-access.log --with-http_ssl_module 
> --with-http_stub_status_module --with-pcre
> 
> # uname -vp
> FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 
> root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> I did a similar FreeBSD upgrade on a an i386 system where nginx was 
> built using gcc 4.3.6 and nginx started as expected.
> I can email the core privately if desired or post to the list.

Using system compiler (aka gcc 4.2.1) should helps you using
nginx without recompilation after OS upgrade.

-- 
Sergey A. Osokin,
osa at FreeBSD.ORG.ru
osa at FreeBSD.ORG