Package: sympa
Version: 5.3.4-6.1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
When accessing an RSS feed sympa enters a loop, system load goes up to 100% and
the web interface hangs.
wwsympa.fcgi process strace and logs show a problem with paths including a
multiple '/'.
stat("/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/shared//", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0771,
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/shared///.desc", 0x602130) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: List::new() List::new(xxxx,
xxx.xxxx.xxx, )
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: List::load() List::load(xxxx,
xxxx.xxxx.xxx, )
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::new()
Lock::new(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config,)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::lock()
Lock::lock(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock,read)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::_lock_file()
Lock::_lock_file(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock,read,5)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::_lock_file() Got lock for read on
/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::unlock()
Lock::unlock(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::_unlock_file()
Lock::_unlock_file(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::_unlock_file() Release lock on
/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: List::new() List::new(xxxx,
xxxx.xxxx.xxx, )
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: List::load() List::load(xxxx,
xxxx.xxxx.xxx, )
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::new()
Lock::new(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config,)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::lock()
Lock::lock(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock,read)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::_lock_file()
Lock::_lock_file(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock,read,5)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::_lock_file() Got lock for read on
/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::unlock()
Lock::unlock(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::_unlock_file()
Lock::_unlock_file(/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock)
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: Lock::_unlock_file() Release lock on
/var/lib/sympa/expl/xxxx.xxxx.xxx/xxxx/config.lock
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: List::request_action() rule true()
,md5,do_it accepted
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: List::check_list_authz()
List::check_list_authz shared_doc.d_read,md5
Mar 8 00:54:53 system wwsympa[12361]: List::request_action()
List::request_action shared_doc.d_read,md5,xxxx.xxxx.xxx
It's a known bug and there is a workaround:
https://sourcesup.cru.fr/tracker/?group_id=23&atid=167&func=detail&aid=5872
I attached the patch for Debian stable, I'm using it in a production enviroment
and it works.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT, LC_CTYPE=it_IT (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sympa depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mai 4.69-9 Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.18-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcgi-fast-perl 5.10.0-19 CGI::Fast Perl module
ii libcrypt-ciphersaber-pe 0.61-4 Perl module implementing CipherSab
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.007-1 A Perl5 database interface to the
ii libdbi-perl 1.605-1 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii libintl-perl 1.16-4 Uniforum message translations syst
ii libio-stringy-perl 2.110-4 Perl modules for IO from scalars a
ii libmailtools-perl 2.03-1 Manipulate email in perl programs
ii libmd5-perl 2.03-1 backwards-compatible wrapper for D
ii libmime-charset-perl 1.006.2-2 Charset Informations for MIME
ii libmime-encwords-perl 1.010.101-1 deal with RFC-1522 encoded words
ii libmime-perl 5.427-1 transitional dummy package
ii libmime-tools-perl [lib 5.427-1 Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii libmsgcat-perl 1.03-4+b1 Locale::Msgcat perl module
ii libnet-ldap-perl 1:0.36-1 A Client interface to LDAP servers
ii libtemplate-perl 2.19-1.1lenny1.1 template processing system written
ii libxml-libxml-perl 1.66-1+b1 Perl module for using the GNOME li
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii mhonarc 2.6.16-1 Mail to HTML converter
ii perl [libmime-base64-pe 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-suid 5.10.0-19 Runs setuid Perl scripts
ii sysklogd [system-log-da 1.5-5 System Logging Daemon
Versions of packages sympa recommends:
pn doc-base <none> (no description available)
ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages sympa suggests:
ii apache2 2.2.9-10+lenny2 Apache HTTP Server metapackage
ii apache2-mpm-prefork [htt 2.2.9-10+lenny2 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n
ii libapache2-mod-fcgid 1:2.2-1 an alternative module compat with
pn libsoap-lite-perl <none> (no description available)
ii mysql-server 5.0.51a-24 MySQL database server (metapackage
ii mysql-server-5.0 [mysql- 5.0.51a-24 MySQL database server binaries
ii openssl 0.9.8g-15 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
-- debconf information:
* wwsympa/webserver_type: Apache 2
* sympa/listmaster: listmas...@liste.bfsf.info
* wwsympa/wwsympa_url: http://liste.bfsf.info/wws
* wwsympa/webserver_restart: true
* sympa/hostname: liste.bfsf.info
* sympa/db_options:
* sympa/soap_url: http://liste.bfsf.info/sympasoap
sympa/wwsympa_configured: true
* sympa/db_name: sympa
* sympa/db_type: MySQL
* sympa/db_configured: true
sympa/soap_configured: false
* sympa/db_hostname: localhost
* sympa/language: it
* sympa/use_db: true
sympa/db_removeonpurge: false
* sympa/use_soap: false
* wwsympa/remove_spool: false
* sympa/db_user: sympa
* wwsympa/fastcgi: true
* sympa/use_wwsympa: true
sympa/db_authtype: Ident-based
sympa/db_port:
sympa/remove_spool: false
* sympa/smime_support: true
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