Bug 119603 – mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61 segfaults with -au and -ap set

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matti Bickel (RETIRED) 2006-01-19 14:20:56 UTC]

Today i noticed a *very* strange behaviour when using ssmtp.
The message-delivery would fail with a segfault if i had my -au and -ap options set. Without it works flawlessy.
I'm using a fresh install of ssmtp with my config (attached) copied over. The corresponding mail server is qmail.
I produced a strace of it, but can't make sense of it. The debug message is kinda irritating:

[<-] 220 server8324611272.serverpool.info ESMTP
[->] EHLO terra.atHome
[<-] 250 8BITMIME
[that's it, i swear!]

[Comment 1 Matti Bickel (RETIRED) 2006-01-19 14:22:19 UTC]

Created attachment 77584 [details]
ssmtp strace

emerge info:
Portage 2.1_pre3-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.0.2, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-rc7-20060101-2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-rc7-20060101-2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre14
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.romnet.org/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 ipv6 kdeenablefinal nptl opengl pic unicode zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 2 David Grant 2006-07-12 09:37:17 UTC]

I get the same thing, except instead of 250 8BITMIME, I get 250 EHLO, then the segfault just like you.

[Comment 3 David Grant 2006-07-12 14:10:06 UTC]

What version did you try?

I just downgraded from 2.61-r2 to 2.60.9 and the problem is gone.

Who is the upstream developer for ssmtp?

[Comment 4 Matti Bickel (RETIRED) 2006-07-12 14:41:08 UTC]

The issue seems to be gone on my side. Maybe a glibc or other upgrade fixed it (or the vogons simply aren't hitting my machine that hard anymore...)

You having the same problem now suprises me. The upstream of ssmtp is the debian project. See http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/ssmtp.html

Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-20060623 ppc)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-20060623 ppc 7455, altivec supported
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  0.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r4
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7400 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=7400 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
LINGUAS="de en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/local /usr/portage/local/layman/science"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="ppc X alsa altivec apache2 apm bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr cli crypt curl dlloader dri dvd eds emboss encode foomaticdb gif gpm gstreamer gtkhtml imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session slang spell spl ssl svg tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xinerama xml xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_de linguas_en linguas_en_GB userland_GNU video_cards_radeon"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 5 Matti Bickel (RETIRED) 2006-11-18 02:39:59 UTC]

Seems to be a non-issue now.