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[Justin Chudgar <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    start-ds-admin no longer segfaults after installing the latest updates.

Justin Chudgar  |  Weed, CA 96094  |  530 921 0738 | http://www.justinzane.com/


On 02/27/2012 05:00 AM, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On 25.02.2012 19:51, Justin Chudgar wrote:
>> At Timo's suggestion, I upgraded my experimental server to Precise.
>> (Amazingly smooth upgrade, BTW. :) I've had several issues with 389:
>>
>> First is a problem with the "user: nobody\ngroup:nobody" line in
>> /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/console.conf. This causes apache2 to complain
>> about "apache2: bad group name nobody". Commenting out those lines in
>> console.conf fixes that issue, though what problems it may cause besides
>> limiting security I don't know.
> Probably an issue due to upgrading from an earlier set of packages. The
> default user/group is dirsrv/dirsrv and that's what my console.conf has..
>
>> Second is a missing log file. Specifically this is what I see:
>>     Starting dirsrv-admin:
>>     (2)No such file or directory: apache2: could not open error log file
>> /var/log/dirsrv/admin-serv/error.
>>     Unable to open logs
>>     Server failed to start !!! Please check errors log for problems
>>     /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin: 126: /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin: failure:
>> not found
>> Manually creating /var/log/dirsrv/admin-serv and chowning it to dirsrv
>> seems to fix that.
> Hmm, couldn't reproduce that either.
>
>> Third, and critically, is a segfault.
>>     Starting dirsrv-admin:
>>     Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>>     Server failed to start !!! Please check errors log for problems
>>     /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin: 126: /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin: failure:
>> not found
>>     ---
>>     # following from /var/log/dirsrv/admin-serv/error
>>     [Sat Feb 25 09:19:28 2012] [crit] do_admserv_post_config(): unable
>> to create AdmldapInfo
>>     Configuration Failed
>>     ---
>>     # from /var/log/syslog
>>     kernel: [ 3378.642501] apache2[4319]: segfault at 10 ip
>> 00007f255d1e9e84 sp 00007fff73edf310 error 4 in
>> libpthread-2.15.so[7f255d1e0000+18000]
> Yeah, I've pushed a new nss with a patch from Fedora to the ppa. Make
> sure you get libnss3 3.13.1-1ubuntu5.1 and try again. I've reproduced
> the crash here, but haven't actually tried the patch yet, waiting for it
> to build.
>
>

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