Mosquitto Service Crash / Seg Fault No Restart

[peterchs]

I'm running the following packages on Ubuntu 18.04.3 server;

#dpkg -l | grep mosquitto
ii  libmosquitto1:amd64                                         1.6.6-0mosquitto1~bionic1                                   amd64        MQTT version 3.1/3.1.1 client library
ii  mosquitto                                                   1.6.6-0mosquitto1~bionic1                                   amd64        MQTT version 3.1/3.1.1 compatible message broker
ii  mosquitto-clients                                           1.6.6-0mosquitto1~bionic1                                   amd64        Mosquitto command line MQTT clients

Ever since I recently updated the packages the service runs for a few hours and then seq faults as can be seen in the kern.log below. I'd restarted the service manually between the two crashes. Its interesting that its at a similar time..

Sep 24 06:25:01 cougar kernel: [141409.020829] mosquitto[13165]: segfault at 88 ip 0000561f7a04914c sp 00007ffd5682ca90 error 4 in mosquitto[561f7a025000+3c000]
Sep 25 01:25:14 cougar kernel: [209824.740542] CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 67887 nsec
Sep 25 06:25:02 cougar kernel: [227813.703606] mosquitto[1915]: segfault at 88 ip 0000564cae88114c sp 00007ffedc03d8d0 error 4 in mosquitto[564cae85d000+3c000]

The last few lines from mosquitto.log file with debug all on before crash;

1569389100: Sending PUBLISH to mqtt_eb479221.eee4d (d0, q0, r0, m0, 'rtl_433/cougar/devices/Efergy_e2_CT/5656/current', ... (8 bytes))
1569389100: Received PUBLISH from rtl_433-65c8d7a3 (d0, q0, r0, m0, 'rtl_433/cougar/devices/Efergy_e2_CT/5656/interval', ... (1 bytes))
1569389100: Received PUBLISH from rtl_433-65c8d7a3 (d0, q0, r0, m0, 'rtl_433/cougar/devices/Efergy_e2_CT/5656/battery', ... (2 bytes))
1569389100: Received PUBLISH from rtl_433-65c8d7a3 (d0, q0, r0, m0, 'rtl_433/cougar/devices/Efergy_e2_CT/5656/learn', ... (2 bytes))
1569389100: Received PUBLISH from rtl_433-65c8d7a3 (d0, q0, r0, m0, 'rtl_433/cougar/devices/Efergy_e2_CT/5656/mic', ... (8 bytes))
1569389101: Sending PINGREQ to local.cougar.external-bridge
1569389102: Received PINGRESP from local.cougar.external-bridge

The mosquitto.conf file;

pid_file /var/run/mosquitto.pid

persistence true
persistence_location /var/lib/mosquitto/

log_dest file /var/log/mosquitto/mosquitto.log
log_type all

include_dir /etc/mosquitto/conf.d

connection external-bridge
address 192.168.1.122:1883
bridge_protocol_version mqttv31
topic REDACTED both 0
remote_username REDACTED 
remote_password REDACTED 

Also the way the package sets up the service it appears it does not automatically restart the service on such a crash - is this something that could be fixed easily? As seen below the process has exited but wasn't restarted. ps shows no mosquitto process when this was run.

# service mosquitto status
● mosquitto.service - LSB: mosquitto MQTT v3.1 message broker
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mosquitto; generated)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2019-09-24 08:49:39 BST; 24h ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1812 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/mosquitto stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1898 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/mosquitto start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Sep 24 08:49:39 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: mosquitto MQTT v3.1 message broker...
Sep 24 08:49:39 mosquitto[1898]:  * Starting network daemon: mosquitto
Sep 24 08:49:39 mosquitto[1898]:    ...done.
Sep 24 08:49:39 systemd[1]: Started LSB: mosquitto MQTT v3.1 message broker.

[peterchs]

Have updated;
/run/systemd/generator.late/mosquitto.service
to have;

Restart=always

Hopefully that will tactically fix it so it automatically restarts on a crash?

Still dont know whats causing the crash, checked my crontabs around that time, nothing that I can see..

[ralight]

Are there any config files in /etc/mosquitto/conf.d ?

[peterchs]

No nothing in /etc/mosquitto/conf.d other than the README.

[ralight]

Could you please update, both issues should now be fixed.