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Re: Honeyd Bus Error on 3.6 sparc64

From: Hanford, Seth (shanfordckure.com)
Date: Wed Dec 01 2004 - 12:59:08 CST


> Hello,
>
> I'm running OpenBSD 3.6 on sparc64 and am trying to get Honeyd 0.8b
> working. I installed Honeyd from the packages on ftp.openbsd.org and
> have the config working fine. Honeyd will start and run just fine. It
> logs to its logfile when it receives traffic, but when it attempts to
> respond it dies with a "Bus error" message.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? I have a ktrace output if anyone needs it.

I just had this happen yesterday with ImageMagick-6.0.0.2 from packages on
my Sparc64. It had to do with a cast to unsigned long, followed by
dereference.
http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/ports/0411/msg00868.html

Perhaps this (or similar) is happening in HoneyD?

-- Seth