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

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 15:20 +0100, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
> 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

I've opened https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1226 to track the crash
you're seeing. All three of the backtraces you sent me had the same
information (included in the ticket; it contains no private data).

This is only happening during "graceful" shutdown when sssd_be receives
a SIGTERM and is cancelling all pending requests. It's possible that the
actual behavior you're seeing is unrelated to this crash, though.
Because a crash at shutdown (or restart) should still be properly
recovering.

This is a serious issue though, so let's get this out of the picture and
see what else happens after that.
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