After installing the fresh linux_base-5.2, using the linux-communicator-4.61 gives me trouble: Everthing is smooth, but sending email eats memory at a speed of 3-4 megs/second, until everything is gone (in my case, 256 real + 314 swap!). It happens when hitting the send button. removing linux_base-5.2 and reinstalling linux_lib-2.6.1 makes eveything fine again. When killing netscape, this appears in the /var/log/maillog: Jul 22 00:55:41 elbas sendmail[18063]: AAA18063: collect: premature EOM: Undefined error: 0 Jul 22 00:55:41 elbas sendmail[18063]: AAA18063: collect: unexpected close on connection from localhost, sender=<girgen@partitur.se>: Undefined error: 0 Jul 22 00:55:41 elbas sendmail[18063]: AAA18063: from=<girgen@partitur.se>, size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=1, proto=ESMTP, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1] nothing ever appears in the spool/mqueue I had to use NEEDLOADLINK= true when installing. Kernel & userland sources are from July 7:th. Are they too old? sysctl -n kern.osreldate 320001 Fix: - Using the old linux_lib-2.6 fixes it. - Adding a LD_LIBRARY_PATH to something? - Maybe altering the netscape port to use glibc? (don't have time for it right now, but this might be an option; not the best solution, though, IMHO). - Apart from that, no idea :( How-To-Repeat: - install emulators/linux_base-5.2 and www/linux-netscape46-communicator - try to send an email
I wasn't able to trigger the problem by simply sending mail. Maybe the problem is also related to specific mails, such as mail with attachment. So far, NC4.61 works as expected (this mail was sent by it). -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > I wasn't able to trigger the problem by simply sending mail. Maybe the > problem is also related to specific mails, such as mail with attachment. So > far, NC4.61 works as expected (this mail was sent by it). > OK. Sounds good; it's only me having problems. Maybe my system sources are too old? July 7th... I'll check it on a simpler environment (this was with the compat dir nfs mounted). I'll check this week-end, and get back to you. /Palle
Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > I wasn't able to trigger the problem by simply sending mail. Maybe the > > problem is also related to specific mails, such as mail with attachment. So > > far, NC4.61 works as expected (this mail was sent by it). > > OK. Sounds good; it's only me having problems. Maybe my system sources > are too old? July 7th... I'll check it on a simpler environment (this > was with the compat dir nfs mounted). I'll check this week-end, and get > back to you. I don't think your -stable version is too old. If it were, then NC4.61 wouldn't also work with linux_lib. I'm more thinking in the line of LD_LIBRARY_PATH settings and/or linux_base installation issues (such as whether /compat/linux was empty or not). I know there can be problems when nfs behaves badly, so keep that in mind too. As a last remark, Having a RH5.2 installation mounted under /compat/linux is not exactly the same as installing linux_base. The conflicting set of libraries/binaries is much larger for a stock RH5.2 installation (maybe too large)... Anyway, I'll await your mail. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > ... > > Anyway, I'll await your mail. > Hello Marcel! I guess you can close the PR. It works fine for me at home. I'll try getting it going at the office next week or so; it'll probably work just fine; could have been an nfs glitch or something, I'm not sure. Now I know it works fine on a standalone machine. Keep up the good work ;-) /Palle
State Changed From-To: open->closed Submitter asks that the PR be closed; the problem can't be reproduced.
Hello again, Unfortunately, the problem *can* be reproduced: Linux_base doesn't work with NIS/YP, at least not for sending mail with netscape. The problem described in PR-12748 happens only when the user running linux-netscape is in the NIS/YP database. Local users can send mails with no problem, but not when the passwd info is stored in a NIS database. I guess you'll have to reopen this PR? :-( I have tried the obvious nsswitch.conf, and modified it to use nis and files for everything, but to no avail. I also tried running the glibc version of netscape, but it gives me a bus error every time. (I had to install libXpm from an rpm, or it would complain about missing libs.) Maybe it's related to pam or the shadow password file? I someone could help me fix this, I'll be much obliged! Thanks! /Palle PS. There seems that the libc's are somewhat dirfferent, but may not mean anything? (/usr/local/compat is linux_lib-2.6 and /usr/compat is linux_base-5.2): ls -l /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5.3.12 \ /usr/local/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.5.3.12 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 699776 Sep 10 1998 /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5.3.12* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 569 705995 Oct 25 1996 /usr/local/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.5.3.12* elbas:~$ file /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5.3.12 \ /usr/local/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.5.3.12 /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5.3.12: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped /usr/local/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.5.3.12: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped DS.
State Changed From-To: closed->open The problem has been found to be reproducable
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports->marcel Over to maintainer
I can verify this is a problem. On a freshly installed 3.2-Stable as of 8/13/99, I can't run any of the Linux apps I've tried (Netscape, WordPerfect) if I'm logged in as a NIS+ user on my company's Solaris LAN. If I log in as root, everything is fine, haven't tried another local only user, will on Monday 8/16.
Michael Oski wrote: > > I can verify this is a problem. On a freshly installed 3.2-Stable as of > 8/13/99, I can't run any of the Linux apps I've tried (Netscape, > WordPerfect) if I'm logged in as a NIS+ user on my company's Solaris > LAN. If I log in as root, everything is fine, haven't tried another > local only user, will on Monday 8/16. I have, and it works with local users. Not with NIS ditto. I have tried to set up nsswitch.conf to try to get the linux to understand that it should use NIS, but I can't get it to work. I'm glad I'm not the only one... How shall we fix this? /Palle
Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.org> found a quick solution to this problem: (cat /etc/passwd ; ypcat passwd ) | egrep -v '^+' > /compat/linux/etc/passwd But possibly only the user running Netscape needs to be in {/compat/linux}/etc/passwd. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org
OK! Thanks to Nick Sayer and Marcel Moolenar, we have a fix! NIS has to be configured for linux by creating an yp.conf file: $ cat /compat/linux/etc/yp.conf # sample yp.conf file # # Legal entries are: # # domainname <domain> Override the default YP domain # (If not set uses the one from # the getdomainname() syscall) # # ypserver <grape> [<domain>] Define which host to contact # for YP service. If the <domain> # argument is included then this # host service the specified YP # domain. domainname freedom ypserver grape ------------ There's no need for copying the passwd file. Once nis is configured for Linux, it will use the FreeBSD passwd file's "+-records" to get nis passwords. I think this file could be added to the distribution of linux_base? This way, people having problems might realize what to do to fix it. People not running NIS will not be affected, since the "+ records" are what really activates NIS. Maybe the yp.conf file could created on the fly, using `ypwhich` and `domainname`? I'll see what I can hack... /Palle Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.org> found a quick solution to this problem: > > (cat /etc/passwd ; ypcat passwd ) | egrep -v '^+' > > /compat/linux/etc/passwd > > But possibly only the user running Netscape needs to be in > {/compat/linux}/etc/passwd. > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl > SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ > The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org
Hi! I attach a patch that installs a proper yp.conf. What do you think? Maybe the comment only part should be in the rpm? /Palle Nick Sayer wrote: > > This does work! Cool! > > Perhaps putting a comment-only template yp.conf file in the Linux /etc/ > directory > would be enough. That, and displaying a note at package installation time > suggesting > that folks visit /etc/ and configure stuff. I had trouble at first because > I had played > with nsswitch.conf and removed nis at one point. As soon as I restored the > original > package's /etc/ directory, though, all became well. > > Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > > OK! Thanks to Nick Sayer and Marcel Moolenar, we have a fix! NIS has to > > be configured for linux by creating an yp.conf file: > > > > $ cat /compat/linux/etc/yp.conf > > # sample yp.conf file > > # > > # Legal entries are: > > # > > # domainname <domain> Override the default YP domain > > # (If not set uses the one from > > # the getdomainname() syscall) > > # > > # ypserver <grape> [<domain>] Define which host to contact > > # for YP service. If the <domain> > > # argument is included then this > > # host service the specified YP > > # domain. > > domainname freedom > > ypserver grape > > > > ------------ > > > > There's no need for copying the passwd file. Once nis is configured for > > Linux, it will use the FreeBSD passwd file's "+-records" to get nis > > passwords. I think this file could be added to the distribution of > > linux_base? This way, people having problems might realize what to do to > > fix it. People not running NIS will not be affected, since the "+ > > records" are what really activates NIS. Maybe the yp.conf file could > > created on the fly, using `ypwhich` and `domainname`? I'll see what I > > can hack... > > > > /Palle > > > > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > > Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.org> found a quick solution to this problem: > > > > > > (cat /etc/passwd ; ypcat passwd ) | egrep -v '^+' > > > > /compat/linux/etc/passwd > > > > > > But possibly only the user running Netscape needs to be in > > > {/compat/linux}/etc/passwd. > > > > > > -- > > > Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl > > > SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ > > > The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org
Hmm.. I missed adding yp.conf to the pkg/PLIST.* files. Probably always including the comment only yp.conf file, and doing the echoes if domainname is set, is the best way. /Palle Nick Sayer wrote: > > This does work! Cool! > > Perhaps putting a comment-only template yp.conf file in the Linux /etc/ > directory > would be enough. That, and displaying a note at package installation time > suggesting > that folks visit /etc/ and configure stuff. I had trouble at first because > I had played > with nsswitch.conf and removed nis at one point. As soon as I restored the > original > package's /etc/ directory, though, all became well. > > Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > > OK! Thanks to Nick Sayer and Marcel Moolenar, we have a fix! NIS has to > > be configured for linux by creating an yp.conf file: > > > > $ cat /compat/linux/etc/yp.conf > > # sample yp.conf file > > # > > # Legal entries are: > > # > > # domainname <domain> Override the default YP domain > > # (If not set uses the one from > > # the getdomainname() syscall) > > # > > # ypserver <grape> [<domain>] Define which host to contact > > # for YP service. If the <domain> > > # argument is included then this > > # host service the specified YP > > # domain. > > domainname freedom > > ypserver grape > > > > ------------ > > > > There's no need for copying the passwd file. Once nis is configured for > > Linux, it will use the FreeBSD passwd file's "+-records" to get nis > > passwords. I think this file could be added to the distribution of > > linux_base? This way, people having problems might realize what to do to > > fix it. People not running NIS will not be affected, since the "+ > > records" are what really activates NIS. Maybe the yp.conf file could > > created on the fly, using `ypwhich` and `domainname`? I'll see what I > > can hack... > > > > /Palle > > > > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > > Nick Sayer <nsayer@FreeBSD.org> found a quick solution to this problem: > > > > > > (cat /etc/passwd ; ypcat passwd ) | egrep -v '^+' > > > > /compat/linux/etc/passwd > > > > > > But possibly only the user running Netscape needs to be in > > > {/compat/linux}/etc/passwd. > > > > > > -- > > > Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl > > > SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ > > > The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org
Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hmm.. I missed adding yp.conf to the pkg/PLIST.* files. > > Probably always including the comment only yp.conf file, and doing the > echoes if domainname is set, is the best way. Nick Sayer wrote: > Perhaps putting a comment-only template yp.conf file in the Linux /etc/ > directory would be enough. That, and displaying a note at package > installation time suggesting that folks visit /etc/ and configure stuff. I'll go for the template only option (with a proper note) for now. Creating a proper yp.conf is simple for any user that previously installed and configured NIS. Setting up yp.conf on the fly is nice, but only if it works for both the port and the package. I'll look into that if time permits. In the mean time, I'll "fix" the port. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org
State Changed From-To: open->closed Solution found. Port fixed. Thanks to Palle and Nick.