[Opendnssec-user] signerd crash

[Göran Bengtson]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Sara Dickinson wrote:

> From: Sara Dickinson <sara at sinodun.com>
> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat at mat.cc>
> Cc: opendnssec-user at lists.opendnssec.org
> Message-ID: <303FE766-7144-48D8-91A6-6D7A310452B8 at sinodun.com>
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:02:54 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Opendnssec-user] signerd crash
> 
>
> On 3 Sep 2013, at 15:57, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just had signerd crash on sig11, from what I can gather in the logs
>> (attached) the enforcer woke up, purged some old keys from softhsm, and the
>> signer was *not* happy at all about it.
>>
>> I've launched it back, waited 8 and a half minutes for it for read all the
>> confs, and am waiting for the effect of ods-signer update --all to take
>> effect and see if something's wrong.
>
>
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> Which version are you using?
>
> We have just fixed a problem in that sounds awfully similar where the signer was crashing after problems with the hsm connection:
>
> * OPENDNSSEC-444: Fix double free corruption in case of HSM connection error while signing RRsets (also fixes SUPPORT-71).
>
> It is fundamentally a threading issue. If you have the core dump from the crash I could try to confirm if this is what you are seeing.
>
> The fix is in the 1.4.2rc1 release candidate which is was made available to the maintainers yesterday and is available here:
>
> Downloads:
> * http://dist.opendnssec.org/source/testing/opendnssec-1.4.2rc1.tar.gz
> * http://dist.opendnssec.org/source/testing/opendnssec-1.4.2rc1.tar.gz.sig
> * Checksum sha1: 5766c5510f225f09c13e9ffaaf09cb447aa428f1
> * Checksum sha256: c3ad800b7548480fa36d65889d452333f7e03ef8909719d4ffdb97274452a186
>
>
> A full 1.4.2 release is planned for Tuesday 10th September.
>
> Sara.
>
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I created a case (SUPPORT-75) this morning that looks as it may have
the same root cause. (ODS 1.3.14 in this case).

 			/ Göran Bengtson
 			  Chalmers Univ. of Technology.