Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

[Ruben de Groot]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:08:48PM +1000, Alex R typed:
> Actually I did change the root shell to bash. U think that might cause it?
 
Definately. before ldconfig is run, only the system libraries in /lib and /usr/lib
are known. Doing a "su -m root" at that time, as /etc/rc.d/ppp is doing, will
result in the error message you got, as bash wants to load libintl.so.8, which
lives in /usr/local/lib.

Ruben

> Ruben de Groot wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed:
> >  
> >>Hi Ruben,
> >>
> >>Output is as follows:
> >>
> >>/usr/bin/su:
> >>       libutil.so.7 => /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000)
> >>       libpam.so.4 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000)
> >>       libbsm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000)
> >>       libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800962000)
> >>    
> >
> >That's normal. Shall I take a guess?
> >
> >You changed root's shell to bash!
> >bash uses libintl, and will be invoked by the "su -m $ppp_user" in
> >/etc/rc.d/ppp
> >
> >Yet another good reason not to change root's default shell :D
> >
> >cheers,
> >Ruben
> >
> >  
> >>Ruben de Groot wrote:
> >>    
> >>>On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed:
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>>>Hi Guys,
> >>>>
> >>>>I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below):
> >>>>
> >>>>http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-net@freebsd.org/msg24337.html
> >>>>
> >>>>ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above 
> >>>>occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via 
> >>>>/etc/rc.conf
> >>>>
> >>>>Funnily enough, the solution presented in that article seems to fix the 
> >>>>issue.. But why? This problem is very easy to reproduce, how could it 
> >>>>have been overlooked? I just happened to find the article in the link 
> >>>>above, out of desperation, it's not good that I had to Google for a 
> >>>>solution.
> >>>>   
> >>>>        
> >>>What's the output of the command
> >>>
> >>>ldd `which su`
> >>>
> >>>?
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>>>Is the solution given "safe"? Should I open a PR?
> >>>>
> >>>>Alex
> >>>>
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