Assertion failing in getentry.c (ITS#984)

[pat@sitepak.com]

Full_Name: Pat Deegan
Version: 2.0.7
OS: Linux 2.2.9-19
URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
Submission from: (NULL) (206.47.244.89)


I set up ProFTPd 1.2.0rc2 to use LDAP and created a test posixAccount.  Using
ncftp to attempt and log in kept producing errors:

ProFTPD 1.2.0 Server (9-1-1 SuperFly ProFTPD Installation) [nine-one-one]
Invalid reply: "proftpd: connected: nine-one-one (127.0.0.1:1943):
getentry.c:30
: ldap_first_entry: Assertion `chain != ((void *)0)' failed."

The relevant code in getentry.c:

ldap_first_entry( LDAP *ld, LDAPMessage *chain )
{
    assert( ld != NULL );
    assert( LDAP_VALID( ld ) );
===>assert( chain != NULL ); <===

The odd thing is that, following the assertions, there's the test :

    if( ld == NULL || chain == NULL ) {
        return NULL;
    }

Commenting out the 
	assert( chain != NULL ); 
and rebuilding solved all my troubles, so far...