Interesting problem updating samba after 7->8 transition
Ronald Klop
ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org
Tue Oct 20 21:45:22 UTC 2009
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:35:39 +0200, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I upgraded (via source) a system from 7-stable to 8-stable and Samba now
> fails in a strange way. Starting the executable results in an immediate
> ABORT:
>
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ./smbd
> Abort
>
> And running ktrace on it results in an extremely short ktrace.out:
>
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ktrace ./smbd
> Abort
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ll ktrace.out
> -rw------- 1 root wheel 166 Oct 20 23:32 ktrace.out
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# kdump -f ./ktrace.out
> 93873 ktrace RET ktrace 0
> 93873 ktrace CALL execve(0xbfbfed7f,0xbfbfec44,0xbfbfec4c)
> 93873 ktrace NAMI "./smbd"
>
> I have no idea how to interpret this dump.
>
> OTOH ldd says everything looks fine:
>
> ursaminor:/usr/local/sbin# ldd ./smbd
> ./smbd:
> libcrypt.so.5 => /lib/libcrypt.so.5 (0x281a1000)
> libpam.so.5 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.5 (0x281ba000)
> libexecinfo.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libexecinfo.so.1 (0x281c1000)
> libiconv.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28845000)
> librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 (0x281cc000)
> libpopt.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0x281da000)
> libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2808f000)
> libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x281e3000)
> libintl.so.8 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x2893b000)
>
> Any suggestion where to dig further?
Read about the latest ERRATA NOTICES's. There is something with
PIE-library's (which are used by Samba) which defaults to doesn't-work in
8 and still works in 7. People are working on a real fix for 8.
In the ERRATA NOTICES is a setting which you can set to does-work.
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-09:05.null.asc
Ronald.
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