[Freeipa-users] SSSD (sssd_be) crashing on RHEL 6.2

[Sigbjorn Lie]

On Fri, March 2, 2012 15:04, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 14:52 +0100, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I'm experiencing that SSSD is now crashing at random times on _ALL_ RHEL 6.2 machines where we
>> have installed SSSD connected to an IPA domain. SSSD can reach up to a month of uptime before
>> sssd_be crashes. This happens on both physical and virtual machines. It happens at different
>> machines at different times, sometimes during working hours, other times during the middle of
>> the night. It's never happened on several machines at the same time.
>>
>> These machines does not have a GUI and the issue is similar but not directly related to the KDE
>>  screensaver lock as per my earlier posts. Also, the KDE screensaver issue was at RHEL 5.
>>
>> What happens is a line in the syslog about sssd_be crashing.
>>
>>
>> sssd_be[1418] general protection ip:41d527 sp:7fff9e82ead0 error:0 in sssd_be[400000+4a000]
>>
>> sssd_be is then being restarted by the parent process, but is no longer usable. Any login via
>> ssh to these machines will just hang.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this issue?
>>
>
>
> Can you try to get us a backtrace, please? "general protection" isn't
> enough information. Though it's interesting that it's "general protection" and not "segfault"...
> That's certainly new.
>
>
> Do you have abrtd running on these systems? If so, it should be able to
> capture a core dump when this happens again, which you can use to generate a backtrace for us.
> _______________________________________________

I certainly do have abrt, some of the dumps are quite large. I will send you these in a private
email.


Regards,
Siggi