Greetings! I recently did a system update and noticed that my ejabberd server isn't working properly. It has periodic crashes in the logs. I found an upstream bug report with the same crash logs I am seeing, which happened to have been filed by another Gentoo user: https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/issues/4177 Upstream suggested that there may be a mismatch of expected versions of the dependencies and the versions the user had in Gentoo. The user reported that updating to 24.02 fixed it for them. I haven't tried this yet, but I wanted to make sure there was a bug report here since the current stable doesn't work, presumably due to other versions of packages that aren't what it is expecting. Reproducible: Always
I did some brief checking, and I do see that fast_tls is stabilized to 1.1.19 right now, but the 23.10 version of ejabberd wants 1.1.16. I also see that stun is currently stabilized to 1.2.12, but ejabberd 23.10 wants 1.2.10 which is actually not marked stable in the tree. There may be others as well, these are just a few I noticed while spot checking. You can see the versions that ejabberd 23.10 wants here: https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/blob/23.10/rebar.config#L25-L81 It sounds like ejabberd's dependencies (at least the ones from processone) don't follow semantic versioning based on comments from upstream in that ticket, so things like this could be why it's not working. Perhaps the best thing now would be to stabilize 24.02 assuming it's working OK (I haven't tried it yet). If we don't want to do that for some reason, I think we should probably move some of these newer processone libs back to testing (and stabilize any that 23.10 needs as well).
I've upgraded to 24.02 and I no longer see the crash I had been seeing (same as the one in the upstream ticket). I'll let it run a bit to see if any other issues shake out, but I might suggest stabilizing it (and 3 of its deps) in a few days if things seem stable.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=48f380669df91d4d648113fbb16841a724977d9f commit 48f380669df91d4d648113fbb16841a724977d9f Author: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2024-04-29 08:34:41 +0000 Commit: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-04-29 08:34:41 +0000 dev-erlang/xmpp: stabilize 1.7.0, destabilize 1.8.1 The current stable version of ejabberd, 23.10, requires xmpp 1.7.0 and crashes with 1.8.1. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/930834 Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> dev-erlang/xmpp/xmpp-1.7.0.ebuild | 4 ++-- dev-erlang/xmpp/xmpp-1.8.1.ebuild | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
