Date: 2016-06-02 14:33:07 +0200
From: @kutsurak
To: Merovingian devs <>
Version: 11.21.19 (Jul2015-SP4)

Last updated: 2016-06-23 10:24:28 +0200

Comment 22190

Date: 2016-06-02 14:33:07 +0200
From: @kutsurak

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The MonetDB daemon crashes on ARM virtual machines, when using the monetdb release command. I will try to test on actual hardware.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. monetdbd create /path/to/dbfarm
2. monetdbd start /path/to/dbfarm
3. monetdb create test_db
4. monetdb release test_db

The contents of the merovingian.log are:

2016-06-02 11:38:31 MSG merovingian[2418]: Merovingian 1.7 (unreleased) starting
2016-06-02 11:38:31 MSG merovingian[2418]: monitoring dbfarm /home/exanest/usr/farms/exanest_db
2016-06-02 11:38:31 MSG merovingian[2418]: accepting connections on TCP socket localhost:50000
2016-06-02 11:38:31 MSG merovingian[2418]: accepting connections on UNIX domain socket /tmp/.s.monetdb.50000
2016-06-02 11:38:31 MSG discovery[2418]: listening for UDP messages on localhost:50000
2016-06-02 11:38:31 MSG control[2418]: accepting connections on UNIX domain socket /tmp/.s.merovingian.50000

SEGMENTATION FAULT OCCURRED

A fatal error has occurred which prevents monetdbd from operating.
This is likely a bug in monetdbd, please report it on http://bugs.monetdb.org/
and include the tail of this log in your bugreport with your explanation of
what you were doing, if possible.

ABORTING NOW, YOU HAVE TO MANUALLY KILL ALL REMAINING mserver5 PROCESSES

Comment 22192

Date: 2016-06-02 17:59:53 +0200
From: @kutsurak

The crash is caused by an incorrect cast to char when using fgetc at msabaoth.c line 852.

Comment 22194

Date: 2016-06-03 12:50:37 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset a33f95d3b785 made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=a33f95d3b785

Changeset description:

Don't cast (f)getc to char: you loose information.
This fixes bug #4015.