Bug#280393: bogofilter: Bogofilter occasionally crashes with GSL errors

[Clint Adams]

[Cc:-ing David and Matthias since replies to the list get rejected.]

Matt, what UML guest and host kernels are you running?

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 09:19:35PM -0800, Matt Roper wrote:
> Package: bogofilter
> Version: 0.92.8-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Over the last couple months I've occasionally run into a problem where
> bogofilter will crash with the following message when processing an
> email:
> 
>     gsl: gamma_inc.c:233: ERROR: error in CF for F(a,x)
>     Default GSL error handler invoked.
>     Aborted
> 
> This error doesn't occur on every message; probably less than 1 out of
> every 1000 messages has this problem.  I've noticed that occasionally a
> message which has been stuck in my mail queue for a while because of
> this problem will somehow make it through without encountering this
> error, which strikes me as very strange.  I thought my wordlists might
> be corrupt, so I moved them out of the way and created new ones, but
> that didn't make a difference.
> 
> Looking back through my procmail logs, it appears that this problem
> first appeared back in June.  I haven't seen this bug reported anywhere
> else, so there must be something unique about my system.  The only thing
> I can think of that's even remotely unique is that I'm running under
> user-mode linux rather than a true kernel, but I don't see how that
> could affect this.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-linode31-1um
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
> 
> Versions of packages bogofilter depends on:
> ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libdb4.2                    4.2.52-17    Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
> ii  libgsl0                     1.5-2        The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) -
> 
> -- no debconf information