Re: OpenLDAP stable on FreeBSD (WAS: core dump with interactive password)

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Friday, March 20, 2009 1:57 PM +0100 Thierry Lacoste 
<lacoste@miage.univ-paris12.fr> wrote:

> Quoting Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>:
>
> > --On Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:42 PM +0100
> > lacoste@miage.univ-paris12.fr wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using openldap 2.4.15 on FreeBSD 6.4
> > >
> > > ldapsearch with the -W switch gives me the expected output but ends with
> > > ldapsearch in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense
> > > Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)
> > >
> > > ldapsearch with the -w switch does not core dump
> >
> > This was already reported in an ITS, and will be fixed with 2.4.16.
> >
> > --Quanah
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> This raises an alarm: maybe I should stick with 2.4.11 for production
> as it is recommended on the OpenLDAP web site, which in turn raises
> a question addressed to FreeBSD users (sorry if I'm a bit OT).
>
> How can I use ports to build OpenLDAP 2.4.11 (currently the ports tree
> contains 2.4.15)? Should I build it manually, loosing the benefits of
> ports?
>
> Also, OpenLDAP 2.4.15 in the FreeBSD ports tree is built
> with BDB 4.6.21 with only the first 3 of the 4 recommended patches.
>
> I'd very much like to have feedback (maybe off list) about those
> issues when running a critical OpenLDAP server on FreeBSD.

I would just run 2.4.15 with the patches from CVS for this issue.  2.4.16 
will be out fairly soon, and it will be the next stable release.  There 
have been major important fixes for 2.4.11, and going from 2.4.11 to later 
releases can require a database reload.

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--Quanah



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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
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