Re: Installing openldap 2.2.19 on RHEL 3

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Sunday, January 02, 2005 12:32 PM +0100 Tony Earnshaw 
<tonye@billy.demon.nl> wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount:
>
> > > Quanah's patches cause my Openldap to SIGSEGV; Quanah's patches are for
> > >  Quanah's system.
> >
> > Um, which patches cause it to do that?  None of them should do so...
>
> http://www.stanford.edu/services/directory/openldap/configuration/patches
> /openldap/slabfix.diff
>
> Actually, I think there's something wrong with this test system (Red Hat
> RHAS3). It's an IBM T23 Thinkpad notebook, 512MB+512MB RAM and is what I
> try everything out on for extended periods before putting stuff onto
> production rigs, and is consequently subject to relatively frequent
> reboots. Suddenly one day, after working perfectly for months, the
> built-in Openldap SASL digest-md5 mech caused it to SIGSEGV and even an
> ltrace on the process (not strace) causes it to do the same. I haven't
> found out why, I'm beginning to suspect hardware but haven't tested that
> yet (remove the 512MB RAM upgrade).

Yeah, I'd think it wasn't that patch, its purpose is to prevent SIGSEGV's 
(and the ones I was having periodically have disappeared since applying 
it).  It is a part of 2.2.20 too. ;)

--Quanah

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