[Freeipa-users] SSSD (sssd_be) crashing on RHEL 6.2

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On Fri, March 2, 2012 15:16, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 15:08 +0100, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>
>> On Fri, March 2, 2012 15:04, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 14:52 +0100, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm experiencing that SSSD is now crashing at random times on _ALL_ RHEL 6.2 machines where
>>>> we have installed SSSD connected to an IPA domain. SSSD can reach up to a month of uptime
>>>> before sssd_be crashes. This happens on both physical and virtual machines. It happens at
>>>> different machines at different times, sometimes during working hours, other times during
>>>> the middle of the night. It's never happened on several machines at the same time.
>>>>
>>>> These machines does not have a GUI and the issue is similar but not directly related to the
>>>> KDE
>>>> screensaver lock as per my earlier posts. Also, the KDE screensaver issue was at RHEL 5.
>>>>
>>>> What happens is a line in the syslog about sssd_be crashing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> sssd_be[1418] general protection ip:41d527 sp:7fff9e82ead0 error:0 in sssd_be[400000+4a000]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> sssd_be is then being restarted by the parent process, but is no longer usable. Any login
>>>> via ssh to these machines will just hang.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else seen this issue?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you try to get us a backtrace, please? "general protection" isn't
>>> enough information. Though it's interesting that it's "general protection" and not
>>> "segfault"...
>>> That's certainly new.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you have abrtd running on these systems? If so, it should be able to
>>> capture a core dump when this happens again, which you can use to generate a backtrace for us.
>>>  _______________________________________________
>>>
>>
>> I certainly do have abrt, some of the dumps are quite large. I will send you these in a private
>>  email.
>>
>
>
> Thanks, can you also let me know the exact version of SSSD that you're
> running?
>

Sure.

sssd-1.5.1-66.el6.x86_64
sssd-client-1.5.1-66.el6.x86_64



Rgds,
Siggi