My system is configured to use LDAP authentication. When the network is unavailable, I'm using nss-db to retrieve the users and groups. These have been stored using nss_updatedb in /var/db/{passwd,group}.db. I'm experiencing crashes in nss_db. Since my system boots up faster then my network; kdm will crash on first launch. Restarting kdm manually after the network is up works fine. Then, after logging in, I can crash getent. With the network enabled, getent works just fine. However, after disabling networking, getent crashes as well.
Here is the backtrace from getent: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. __rawmemchr_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../rawmemchr.S:38 38 ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../rawmemchr.S: No such file or directory. in ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../rawmemchr.S (gdb) bt #0 __rawmemchr_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/../rawmemchr.S:38 #1 0x00007ffff61644d4 in _nss_db_getpwent_r (result=0x7ffff7dd7ec0, buffer=0x609360 "ntp", buflen=1024, errnop=0x7ffff7fc86a8) at ./nss_files/../nss_db/db-XXX.c:263 #2 0x00007ffff7b2cc7a in __nss_getent_r (getent_func_name=0x7ffff7b9acff "getpwent_r", setent_func_name=0x7ffff7b9aced "setpwent", lookup_fct=<optimized out>, nip=0x7ffff7dd7fc0, startp=<optimized out>, last_nip=0x7ffff7dd7fd0, stayopen_tmp=0x0, res=0, resbuf=0x7ffff7dd7ec0, buffer=0x609360 "ntp", buflen=1024, result=0x7fffffffda98, h_errnop=0x0) at getnssent_r.c:164 #3 0x00007ffff7ae8936 in __getpwent_r (resbuf=<optimized out>, buffer=<optimized out>, buflen=<optimized out>, result=<optimized out>) at ../nss/getXXent_r.c:162 #4 0x00007ffff7b2c883 in __nss_getent (func=0x7ffff7ae88a0 <__getpwent_r>, resbuf=0x7ffff7dd7ec0, buffer=0x7ffff7dd6798, buflen=<optimized out>, buffer_size=0x7ffff7dd7ef0, h_errnop=0x0) at getnssent.c:37 #5 0x00007ffff7ae83c2 in getpwent () at ../nss/getXXent.c:85 #6 0x0000000000402d87 in passwd_keys (number=0, key=<optimized out>) at getent.c:627 #7 0x000000000040466d in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=0x7fffffffdc98) at getent.c:1008 (gdb)
Created attachment 322274 [details] strace of getent
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Steps to reproduce: 1. Start with a system that uses LDAP authentication. 2. Tell the system to use nss_db when the ldap server is not available in /etc/nsswitch.conf: passwd: files ldap [NOTFOUND=return] db group: files ldap [NOTFOUND=return] db shadow: files ldap [NOTFOUND=return] db 3. Use "nss_updatedb ldap" (when connected to the LDAP server) to generate /var/db/{passwd,group}.db 4. Disconnect from the network 5. getent passwd
I'm using nss_db succesfully on two other systems (one x86, one amd64) with a similar setup. However they are still on glibc-2.14.1-r3, with a separate libnss_db. Unfortunatey downgrading glibc doesn't seem that straightforward...
It seems that glibc doesn't use db4.8 for its databases anymore, which is what nss_updatedb generates. No wonder that it crashes. Instead there is a utility called "makedb". This subject is covered by Section 2.16 of the FAQ (/usr/share/doc/glibc-2.15-r2/FAQ.bz2). However, the db-Makefile that is provided generates /var/db/passwd.db exclusively from /etc/passwd, which does not contain the ldap users. Anyway the db-Makefile does give the awk needed to process the output of getent passwd, so rejoice! The problem is solved. It is just the pam_ccreds documentation that is out-of-date.
