Re: pkg/59598: perl dumps core periodically in /var/log

["Thomas Klausner via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/59598; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>
To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/59598: perl dumps core periodically in /var/log
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:04:50 +0200

 On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 02:55:02PM +0000, htodd%twofifty.com@localhost wrote:
 > I periodically find perl.core in /var/log. It has happened for "a while" on NetBSD-10 and now on NetBSD-11_BETA. Looks like the beta has debugging info available because I was able to get  backtrace from gdb but I'm unclear on where it's coming from (probably from some log rotation). The core file was recently generated and appears to have happened at the top of the hour.
 > 
 > -rw-------  1 root  wheel  171035208 Aug 14 18:00 /var/log/perl.core
 
 Try to find out which process generates it, perhaps by looking at all crontabs.
 
 > #6  0x000074be106d5caa in perl_run () from /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.40.0/x86_64-netbsd-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
 
 The current pkgsrc version is 5.42.
  Thomas