Passenger not working any more after Base System upgrade: can you reproduce?

[José Pérez]

Hi,
after a Base System upgrade Passenger fails on
startup with this error:
nginx: [alert] Unable to start the Phusion Passenger watchdog: it seems 
to have been killed with signal SIGABRT during startup (-1: Unknown 
error)

Can please someone try and reproduce and/or
suggest a workaround/fix?

How to reproduce:
- stable 11.2
- install nginx or apache (same problem with
   both)
- install (almost) any passenger version (I
   could reproduce with 5.2.1, 5.3.2 (current
   in ports) and 5.3.3 (latest))

What you get:
# service nginx start
Performing sanity check on nginx configuration:
nginx: the configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is 
ok
nginx: configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is 
successful
Starting nginx.
nginx: [alert] Unable to start the Phusion Passenger watchdog: it seems 
to have been killed wit

Further error details in log:
[ pid=57456, timestamp=1530359790 ] Process aborted! signo=SIGABRT(6), 
reason=#65543, si_addr=0x0, randomSeed=1530359790
[ pid=57456 ] Crash log dumped to 
/var/tmp/passenger-crash-log.1530359790
[ pid=57456 ] Date, uname and ulimits:
Sat Jun 30 13:56:30 CEST 2018
FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 29 13:39:48 CEST 
2018     root at myhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 amd64
cpu time               (seconds, -t)  unlimited
file size           (512-blocks, -f)  unlimited
data seg size           (kbytes, -d)  33554432
stack size              (kbytes, -s)  524288
core file size      (512-blocks, -c)  unlimited
max memory size         (kbytes, -m)  unlimited
locked memory           (kbytes, -l)  131072
max user processes              (-u)  8499
open files                      (-n)  116847
virtual mem size        (kbytes, -v)  unlimited
swap limit              (kbytes, -w)  unlimited
socket buffer size       (bytes, -b)  unlimited
pseudo-terminals                (-p)  unlimited
kqueues                         (-k)  unlimited
umtx shared locks               (-o)  unlimited
[ pid=57456 ] Phusion Passenger version: 5.3.2
[ pid=57456 ] libc backtrace not available.
--------------------------------------
[ pid=57456 ] Open files and file descriptors:
*** ERROR: cannot execute lsof: No such file or directory (errno=2)
Falling back to another mechanism for dumping file descriptors.
ls: illegal option -- v
usage: ls [-ABCFGHILPRSTUWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwxy1,] [-D format] [file 
...]
ERROR: Could not run 'ls' to dump file descriptor information!
--------------------------------------
[ pid=57456 ] Dumping a backtrace with crash-watch...
Found gdb at: /usr/bin/gdb
/usr/bin/gdb is broken on FreeBSD. Looking for an alternative...
*** ERROR ***: '/usr/bin/gdb' is broken on FreeBSD. Please install the 
one from the devel/gdb port instead. If you want to use another gdb



I already tried:
- on another hardware, just in case
- virtual / real metal, no difference
- gdb reports the SIGABRT is actually
   raised by boost when spawning the watchdog

I had the module working on 11.1 stable:
FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 20 15:11:50 CET 2018 
     root at myotherhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64




Any suggestion is also very welcome. Thank you.



Regards,


-- 
José Pérez