I am trying to track down the cause of some errors that have been
occurring on a number of our servers using LDAP. We have noticed that
when a certain LDAP group exceeds 65 users we begin seeing glibc errors
for users in the group. Users that are not in the group do not exhibit
this behavior.
We have seen this issue on machines running Centos 4.5 x86 & x86_64 with
glibc-2.3.4-2.36 and RH4 x86_64 running glibc-2.3.4-2.25. We are running
Fedora Directory Server 1.0.4 on Centos 4.5. We have added a 3rd FDS
slave and turned up debugging but have not seen anything that appears to
be relevant in the logs on the 3rd slave.
This problem is not a 65 user limit as we have other groups with well
over 65 members that do not display this behavior. We also created a new
group with identical users and it did not display this problem.
1) With 66 users in the massweb group
[root@megalon ~]# getent group massweb
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x09a225b0 ***
Aborted
2) After removing any user from the massweb group to reduce the total
members to 65
[root@megalon ~]# getent group massweb
massweb:x:3016:afaxon,ashairza,ccrump,jhorowit,mmarum,morendai,usmall,adroffne,afaxon,amurphre,aoliver,ayellipe,bdonohue,bdunn,beckert,blarsen,bwphilli,catanis,ccrump,chaynes,clyons,cwong,dbarber,dmuse,dnicol,edougher,egallant,ekubosia,evizcain,feeddrop,gtulonen,halokush,hbraverm,jbartus,jbrown,jhobbs,jking,jlederma,jpecora,jthayer,kbalbedi,kbeam,kginn,mbuonfig,mcrawfor,mlarsen,mlong,mwalsh,osedano,proche,prondeau,pweinber,rhorriga,rkersey,rskutins,sasaro,sbrodeur,sculver,smoriart,support,swestenh,tbaltimo,torgelfi,usmall,vvalenti
Has anyone encountered a similar problem with nss_ldap or pam_ldap? Any suggestions would be most
welcome.
Best regards
-BO