pure-ftpd with postgresql support in karmic and Lucid crashes frequently during authentication

[Vihai]

Binary package hint: pure-ftpd-postgresql

This appears to be a regression in karmic as downgrading to jaunty's packages solves the problem.

pure-ftpd, often but not always crashes during authentication.

Running pure-ftpd non-daemonized outputs a libc warning (attached)

[strowi (forums-hasnoname)]

i get a similar error with lucid + pure-ftpd-postgresql, see attachement

[Mark Stosberg (markstos)]

I also have a similar problem with the latest packages on Lucid with pure-ftpd-postgresql. Authentication fails, and then I can see in the logs that a segfault has happened:

Jun 20 10:04:39 foo kernel: [ 6408.810996] pure-ftpd-postg[3650]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f4335b870a0 sp 00007fff2e7c9b00 error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so[7f4335b09000+17a000]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mark Stosberg (markstos)]

To other bug reporters, who did you work around this issue, if it at all?

[Mark Stosberg (markstos)]

I want share how I was able to address the crashes on Lucid. In summary, I rebuild the source packages from Precise and installed them, and that fixed it. I suspect the fix might have come in 1.0.28 or 1.0.29, as they included these fixes in the changelog:

" Fix crash with PostgreSQL" and "Fixes segfaults on glibc".

This was my process:

- Add a 'precise/universe' 'deb-src' line to /etc/apt/sources.list
- apt-get update
cd ~/tmp
apt-get source pure-ftpd-postgresql
- remove line above from /etc/apt/sources.list
- apt-get update
cd pure-ftpd-1.0.35
apt-get build-dep pure-ftpd-postgresql
debuild -us -uc
cd ../
sudo dpkg -i pure-ftpd-postgresql_1.0.35-1_amd64.deb pure-ftpd-common_1.0.35-1_all.deb

If anything is found to be wrong with the new packages, an uninstall/install cycle would return the machine to using the "Lucid" packages.

Stefan Hornburg, you appear to be the package maintainer and also subscribed to this bug. Would it be possible to create a new release for Lucid that includes this crash-fix?

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke)]

Mark, your analysis makes sense to me. But I'm only the package maintainer for Debian, so I can' t create a new release for Lucid.

Regards
               Racke

[Mark Stosberg (markstos)]

Hello Stefan,

And thanks for your help packaging this software. I appreciate it. I'll try to figure out who the Ubuntu package maintainer is for this. Anyone here know?