Date: 2017-08-04 09:57:47 +0200
From: Zhouyang <>
To: Merovingian devs <>
Version: 11.27.5 (Jul2017-SP1)

Last updated: 2017-10-26 14:01:28 +0200

Comment 25547

Date: 2017-08-04 09:57:47 +0200
From: Zhouyang <>

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/602.4.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.0.3 Safari/602.4.8
Build Identifier:

After setting a wrong listenaddr, monetdbd will crash when starting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. monetdbd create /a/new/dbfarm/path
2. monetdbd set listenaddr=wronghost /a/new/dbfarm/path
3. monetdbd start -n /a/new/dbfarm/path

Actual Results:

Aborted

Expected Results:

Exit and output proper log messages.

The reason is that there is no error handling code after library function "gethostbyname".
Attached please find the patch against version MonetDB-11.27.5.

Comment 25548

Date: 2017-08-04 10:00:25 +0200
From: Zhouyang <>

Created attachment 565
fix the crash by adding error handling code to gethostbyname

Attached file: monetdb-11.27.5-fix-crash.patch (text/plain, 575 bytes)
Description: fix the crash by adding error handling code to gethostbyname

Comment 25549

Date: 2017-08-04 10:41:59 +0200
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset fedb63ea4b33 made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see https//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=fedb63ea4b33

Changeset description:

Add error handling.
Fixes bug #6384.

Comment 25550

Date: 2017-08-04 10:42:22 +0200
From: @sjoerdmullender

Thanks for the patch. I added cleanup as well.