Torrentflux-B4rt – Seg fault

So one day you find yourself linking in a torrent file to GET+START on torrentflux, and suddenly the transfers page dies, you cant seem to hit anything other than the login page and once you log in it starts prompting you to download the index.php and save to disk?! What is going on you wonder…

[Date1] [notice] child pid 19891 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Date] [notice] child pid 19857 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Date] [error] [client ] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind:)

*If* Errorlog entries similar to the above can be found in your apache/error.log …

You can try:

Restart apache, restart MySQL, kill all apache/sql instances, remove active transfer records from the tf_transfers table in the DB, restart your server entirely…

but it will do nothing to solve this problem, sorry! I’m yet to find the root cause, but it seems the /admin.php page SHOULD be available, in which the Maintenance -> Main -> Extended Maintenance Run performs something that kills whatever is causing the problem.

Seems this isn’t very well documented in the torrentflux world – hopefully this helps someone recover their install before they do a complete wipe/reinstall.

Obviously doing this may cause an outage to your seeding of those all important nix *.iso’s – you’ve been warned!