ca_root_nss compile failure

George Mitchell george+freebsd at m5p.com
Wed Sep 28 11:09:26 UTC 2016


On 09/28/16 02:59, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 28.09.2016 um 01:51 schrieb George Mitchell:
>> Before I file a PR, does this failure look familiar to anyone?
>>
>>  portmaster -BDg security/ca_root_nss
> 
>> ===>  Building for ca_root_nss-3.26
>> ##  Untrusted certificates omitted from this bundle: 20
>> openssl x509 failed with exit code 139 at
>> /usr/ports/security/ca_root_nss/work/MAca-bundle.pl line 78.
>> *** Error code 255
> George,
> 
> thanks for asking, this is the first report I am made aware of. "exit
> code 139" is actually a signal, 128 + 11 = "core dump + SIGSEGV".
> openssl should NOT raise a SIGSEGV in ANY case, and beyond marking
> build-time conflicts perhaps, there's nothing that ca_root_nss could do
> anything about. It's a Perl script that uses the OpenSSL executable, and
> the latter crashed due to the SIGSEGV.
> 
> First, please show the output of these two commands before doing further
> upgrades:
> 
> pkg info '*ssl'
> 
> freebsd-version -u
> 
> 
> That should answer these underlying questions:
> 
> 1. Do you have openssl or libressl installed from ports?
> 
> 2. Is your base system fully patched? Note that there have been two
> OpenSSL upgrades in quick succession, and re-running "freebsd-update
> fetch" and "freebsd-update install" is advised in case you've missed the
> second one (alternatively, rebuild and reinstall OpenSSL from a
> supported releng SVN branch)
> 
> If you do not have openssl, libressl installed, and you have a supported
> fully-updated base system, then (3) start looking for hardware trouble,
> and only then we can usefully start looking into the crash, such as
> installing debug symbols for openssl and looking into backtraces.
> 
Thanks for your help.  I've just done the freebsd-update operation,
and since I have no port versions of openssl installed, I presume
that will fix the problem.  I appreciate your attention!   -- George


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