Interesting problem updating samba after 7->8 transition

Ronald Klop ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Tue Oct 20 21:45:22 UTC 2009


On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:35:39 +0200, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I upgraded (via source) a system from 7-stable to 8-stable and Samba now
> fails in a strange way. Starting the executable results in an immediate
> ABORT:
>
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ./smbd
> Abort
>
> And running ktrace on it results in an extremely short ktrace.out:
>
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ktrace ./smbd
> Abort
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ll ktrace.out
> -rw-------  1 root  wheel  166 Oct 20 23:32 ktrace.out
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# kdump -f ./ktrace.out
>  93873 ktrace   RET   ktrace 0
>  93873 ktrace   CALL  execve(0xbfbfed7f,0xbfbfec44,0xbfbfec4c)
>  93873 ktrace   NAMI  "./smbd"
>
> I have no idea how to interpret this dump.
>
> OTOH ldd says everything looks fine:
>
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ldd ./smbd
> ./smbd:
>         libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x281a1000)
>         libpam.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.5 (0x281ba000)
>         libexecinfo.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libexecinfo.so.1 (0x281c1000)
>         libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28845000)
>         librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 (0x281cc000)
>         libpopt.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0x281da000)
>         libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2808f000)
>         libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x281e3000)
>         libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x2893b000)
>
> Any suggestion where to dig further?

Read about the latest ERRATA NOTICES's. There is something with  
PIE-library's (which are used by Samba) which defaults to doesn't-work in  
8 and still works in 7. People are working on a real fix for 8.
In the ERRATA NOTICES is a setting which you can set to does-work.

http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-09:05.null.asc

Ronald.


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