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[Erik Olson <address@concealed>]

Yes, this is also a change to perl 5.14.2 from some previous version.

I started adding debug print messages to the perl modules themselves, and 
have confirmed that the line-by-line traces I sent in my original mail are 
probably accurate.  In both the post case and the subscribe case, it's on 
a call to MIME::Parser->parse_data and I don't see anything obviously 
wrong with the data... and the actual blow up occurs several levels 
deeper, on IO::File -- perhaps attempting to open a file it shouldn't?

Thanks for the confirmation!

  - Erik

On Sun, 1 Jan 2012, Davy Kager wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am experiencing what I believe to be an identical issue, see 
> https://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-users/2011-12/msg00022.html
>
> For me this came about when upgrading from openSUSE 11.4 to openSUSE 
> 12.1 (x86_64).  This upgrade also carried an upgrade to Perl, from 
> version 5.12.x to 5.14.2.  I would say that is the problem (or possibly 
> one of the upgraded modules?).
>
> Kind regards,
> Davy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On 
> Behalf Of Erik Olson
> Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 06:02
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: [sympa-users] perl crashing on wwsympa.fcgi
>
> I am wondering if anyone can help me here.
>
> I had been running Sympa 6.1.6 on a 64-bit Fedora 12 Linux box.
>
> This week, I transferred all the files from ~sympa and appropriate /etc 
> directories to a brand new rebuilt 64-bit Fedora 16 box.  Restored the 
> database on the new box, and I also upgraded to Sympa 6.1.7 in the process.
>
> Things are mostly working, but wwsympa.cgi is now page faulting in libperl.so 
> when certain functions are accessed:
>
>   1) Posting to a list via the web
>
>   2) Subscribing a user to a list via the web (but only when Quiet is
>      unchecked... if Quiet is checked, it works)
>
>   3) Attempting to approve a moderated message, whether it be via a ticket
>      link, or clicking on "Moderate -> Message"
>
>   4) User who has been subscribed but never logged in attempts to set up a
>         password by clicking on the "First Login" link.  wwsympa.fcgi
>         blows up when they enter their e-mail address and click "Request First
>         Password"
>
> I am guessing the common thread here is that all these functions involve 
> sending an e-mail directly from wwsympa.fcgi, or maybe creating/dealing with 
> tickets?
>
> Here is the relevant line from syslog:
>
> [...]
> Dec 31 20:39:59 pulcher wwsympa[6729]: info [robot gsas.org] [session 
> 11550608881860] [client 192.168.1.2] main::do_requestpasswd() 
> do_requestpasswd(address@concealed) Dec 31 20:39:59 pulcher wwsympa[6729]: info 
> Auth::create_one_time_ticket() 
> Auth::create_one_time_ticket(address@concealed,gsas.org,choosepasswd,192.168.1.2) 
> value = 67959831025349 Dec 31 20:39:59 pulcher kernel: [  587.774025] 
> wwsympa.fcgi[6729] general protection ip:7f22b4fd5821 sp:7fff4074bc60 error:0 
> in libperl.so[7f22b4f3f000+171000]
>
>
> I am not a perl expert, nor familiar with how to get any form of a backtrace 
> when perl itself crashes.  I did try adding -d Devel::Trace to the execution 
> of wwsympa.fcgi, and examined the line-by-line traces of each module.  I've 
> enclosed partial traces from each of these four cases right up to the 
> crashes.  I don't see a lot of commonality other than the use of mail.pm
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>   - Erik Olson
>
>
> --
> Erik Olson
> Sent from my spiffy new Linux box

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Erik Olson
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