[Dovecot] dovecot-auth core dumps

Cassidy B. Larson alandaluz at gmail.com
Wed Aug 1 22:01:31 EEST 2007


It appears the issue is when someone uses gssapi to authenticate.  Hope this
is what you want:

[root at carcel ~]# gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth 5863
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This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols
found)...
Attaching to program: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth, process 5863
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpam.so.3...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpam.so.3
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.8...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.8
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.8...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.8
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libasn1.so.8...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libasn1.so.8
Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypto.so.4...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypto.so.4
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libroken.so.8...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libroken.so.8
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libcom_err.so.3...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libcom_err.so.3
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15...(no
debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.15
Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.3...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.3
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.4...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.4
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6
Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...(no debugging symbols
found)...done.
Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
0x000000001149031c in kevent () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) continue
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00000000107712a8 in gss_delete_sec_context () from /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.8


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On 8/1/07, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:06 -0600, Cassidy B. Larson wrote:
>
> > gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth /var/run/dovecot/dovecot-
> > auth.core
>
> This looks correct.
>
> > (gdb) bt full
> > #0  0x180abc22 in gss_delete_sec_context () from /usr/lib/libgssapi.so.8
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #1  0x08059246 in mech_deinit ()
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #2  0x08053f12 in auth_request_handler_unref ()
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #3  0x08050bef in auth_client_connection_destroy ()
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #4  0x08050ead in auth_client_connection_create ()
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #5  0x08065f54 in io_loop_handler_run ()
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #6  0x08065605 in io_loop_run ()
> > No symbol table info available.
> > #7  0x0805722a in main ()
> > No symbol table info available.
>
> But this looks broken unfortunately. Usually it happens if the core file
> wasn't created by the exact same binary you gave to gdb.
>
> One way to be sure would be to attach gdb to dovecot-auth while it's
> still running:
>
> gdb /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth <pid of dovecot-auth>
> continue
> <wait for crash>
> bt full
>
> Also your dovecot-auth doesn't contain debugging information. It would
> be helpful to have that (make install probably strips them), but maybe
> not required if I just can get a nonbroken backtrace.
>
>
>


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