openldap server + kse = bewm

[Daniel Eischen]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote:

> hey folks,
> 
> Looks like the OpenLDAP server, slapd, and KSE don't get along too well.
> 
> I can reliably segfault slapd by doing a few requests of it on a -CURRENT
> machine built this morning PST.  TLS seems to accelerate things, but it

What is TLS?

> can be done without.  I have this backtrace, with a debugging libpthread,
> but I'm not sure how useful it is to you folks.
> 
> This is 100% reproducible, although initially it was croaking in
> pthread_testcancel() instead of a kse function. This leads me to suspect
> strange mutex corruption, but I'd like someone who understands kse to at
> least spot-check.

Usually, this is from something that is using %gs and stomping
on our LDTs.  Any warnings from the kernel about static LDT
allocations?

> I thought at first it might be some strange interaction between berkeley
> db 4.2's special assembly mutexes and kse, but I rebuilt db42 with pthread
> mutexes and rebuilt openldap to use DB_PRIVATE so the db would mount, but
> no change in status.
> 
> Here's the trace from gdb:

This doesn't show much to me...

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Dan Eischen