[tor-bugs] #15901 [Tor]: apparent memory corruption -- very difficult to isolate

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#15901: apparent memory corruption -- very difficult to isolate
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     Reporter:  starlight  |      Owner:
         Type:  defect     |     Status:  new
     Priority:  critical   |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.7.x-final
    Component:  Tor        |    Version:  Tor: 0.2.5.12
   Resolution:             |   Keywords:
Actual Points:             |  Parent ID:
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Comment (by starlight):

 Nope!  Not recovered.

 Same bad messages (uploaded to ticket) repeated
 after two hours and an additional

 {{{
 parse error: Too few arguments to r
 Error tokenizing router status
 }}}

 which has appeared in some earlier incidents.

 the `unparseable-desc` file has appeared as
 well with a relatively small count of 825;
 curiously these descriptors also appear
 in cached-consensus and in a copy of the
 consensus retrieved with

 wget http://<relay ip>/tor/status-vote/current/consensus

 Does anyone have any suggestions before
 I kill the relay for the `core` and restart it?

 I can't say that I am enjoying this bug.

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