On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:44:30PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Lucky Green wrote:
> > I just spent a few days trying to determine why postfix with STARTTLS
> > enabled is instantly dumping core on my new FreeBSD 5.0 machine.
> >
> > The problem was caused by a conflict between OpenSSL library versions
> > 0.9.6 and 0.9.7, both of which are installed on the machine. The former
> > as part of the FreeBSD base distribution, the latter as a Port.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the nature of the conflict, at least on my box, prevented
> > any meaningful gdb back trace.
> >
> > If you are seeing unexplained core dumps with SSL-using applications and
> > have both OpenSSL 0.9.6 and 0.9.7 installed, chances are you ran into
> > this problem.
> >
> > Fix:
> > no idea.
>
> Very easy. Make Postfix obey the port path, when obtaining header
> files and linking components. It should get everything from the
> system location, or it should get everything from the default
> location. The most likely scenario is that the include path is
> not being overridden, even when the library path is. This is
> most likely due to a bug in the GNU configure script. The best
> way around those bugs is "do not use GNU configure".
Since when does Postfix use GNU configure (aka autoconf)?
> > FYI, FreeBSD is not the only OS on which this problem has been found to
> > exist. Debian Linux is experience the same problem. See a post to
> > debian-devel-announce attached below.
>
>
> FWIW: this confirms that it's a Postfix problem.
No.
Best regards,
Lutz
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