Re: Segmentation fault

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

sf.techguy@gmail.com wrote:
> [ I posted this to the OpenLDAP tech list, and they suggested
> re-posting here. It was suggested to upgrade to a newer version of
> OpenLDAP, but for various reasons, upgrading to is problematic, and
> I'm willing to endure an unreasonable amount of pain to try to get it
> working with my ancient version. :) ]

In this case your amount of pain includes learning how to debug code yourself, 
because nobody on the Project cares to spend any time debugging obsolete code. 
I suggest you read up on how to use gdb.

Some tips to get started are here
http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/59.html

but you'll likely need to dig deeper than a simple backtrace.
> Running OpenLDAP 2.2.19 on Darwin kernel v. 8.11.1, and when I issue:
>
> /usr/sbin/slapcat -d 5 -v -l /Users/localadmin/Desktop/bkup.ldif
>
> I get the following output:
>
> <snip>...
>
> # id=00000070
> entry_decode: "cn=raidgroup,cn=groups,dc=fileserver,dc=mydomain,dc=private"
> <= entry_decode(cn=raidgroup,cn=groups,dc=fileserver,dc=mydomain,dc=private)
> # id=00000071
> slapcat shutdown: initiated
> Segmentation fault
>
> ...</snip>
>
> Anyone know how I can track down what's causing this segmentation fault?
> .

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