Re: OpenLDAP crashes with segfault

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:36 AM +0100 Tim Stone 
<tmstn68@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've installed OpenSuse 11 on a 64bit Intel Xeon. I configured one
> OpenLDAP as sync provider and the second one as consumer (RefeshOnly).
>
> But every time, a change is made in the provider and the consumer try
> to sync, the Provider crashs with segfault.
> I configured a own filter in syslog so that the slapd is logging in an
> exra logfile. The loglevel is -1. In the logfile are no related
> information. In the syslog I found following line:
>
> Feb 18 13:30:35 ldap-11 kernel: slapd[6151]: segfault at 8 ip
> 7f18d3a7b695 sp 40a60400 error 4 in libc-2.8.so[7f18d3a04000+14f000]
>
> To debug this, I turned corefiles on:
>
> sysctl -w kernel.core_pattern=/core
> sysctl -w kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
> ulimit -c unlimited
>
> but no corefiles are created ...
>
> Can anyone help me?


What openldap release are you using?  Also, in general, you probably have 
to set one of {kernel,fs}.suid_dumpable (the name of it depends on the 
kernel version) to 2 and you may need to modify /etc/profile to allow 
subprocesses to get ulimit -c unlimited.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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