Re: ldapd 3.1beta crashed our server

Thomas Lenggenhager (lengge@chx400.switch.ch)
Tue, 22 Nov 1994 06:36:40 +0100

[ Sorry for choosing the wrong list when sending my first message, I wanted
to send it only to the UMich people. ]

On Mon, 21 Nov 1994 13:09:48 -0500 tim@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu wrote:

> > From: Thomas Lenggenhager <lengge@chx400.switch.ch>
> > To: ldap@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
>
> > just to let you know that the current beta of the ldapd is able to crash
> > a server in full normal operation...
> >
> > Some final version in sight?
>
> Um...what you have there looks like a kernel panic to me. I don't
> know what makes you think ldapd is causing this, but it seems to me
> unlikely that any user-level process such as ldapd should be able
> to do this, no matter how hard it tries. Do you have reason to
> believe it's not just a bug in your kernel? -- Tim

Did I interpret the following lines wrong, when I concluded that the memory
address alignment happened in ldapd and that caused the kernel panic?

> ...
> Nov 21 16:52:42 nic vmunix: pid 11714, `ldapd': Memory address alignment
> ...
> Nov 21 16:52:42 nic vmunix: panic on cpu 0: Memory address alignment
> Nov 21 16:52:42 nic vmunix: syncing file systems... done

Thomas