Re: Stange logs filling my /var/log/messages

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 2:24 PM Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Mar 2024, at 11:39, Dieter Schön wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > sasl is a component of Erlang OTP.
> > Maybe now you can make some connections?
> > CouchDB and some other packages are built with erlang.
>
> This SASL isn’t the erlang one, which lives under
> /usr/local/lib/erlang*/lib/…
>
> > Am 29. März 2024 11:27:51 MEZ schrieb Odhiambo Washington <
> odhiambo@gmail.com>:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >> I am suddenly seeing hundreds of log entries like the below in
> /var/log/messages:
> >>
> >> Mar 29 00:01:01 gw python[45994]: unable to dlopen
> /usr/local/lib/sasl2/libotp.so.3: Shared object "libopie.so.8" not found,
> required by "libotp.so.3"
> >> Mar 29 00:02:01 gw python[85428]: unable to dlopen
> /usr/local/lib/sasl2/libotp.so.3: Shared object "libopie.so.8" not found,
> required by "libotp.so.3"
> >> Mar 29 00:02:01 gw python[86114]: unable to dlopen
> /usr/local/lib/sasl2/libotp.so.3: Shared object "libopie.so.8" not found,
> required by "libotp.so.3"
> >> Mar 29 00:03:01 gw python[26886]: unable to dlopen
> /usr/local/lib/sasl2/libotp.so.3: Shared object "libopie.so.8" not found,
> required by "libotp.so.3"
> >>
> >> Given that I haven't installed anything new in the last several weeks,
> I am wondering what it is that could be causing this.
> >>
>
> This appears to be some python program failing.
>
> See
> https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports/2024-January/005169.html
> it suggests you have partially updated libraries from FreeBSD 13.x or
> earlier to FreeBSD 14.x
>
> Why it started recently I can’t say without more info.
>
> To fix this make sure your Userland and ports match your kernel, and check
> your ports are all up to date.
>
> A+
> Dave
>

Thanks for this response.

I have been running 14-RELEASE for several months now and never saw these.
Plus, I don't even know any use case for sasl2 on my system.
I am running 'portupgrade -a` now to see if that will help.


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