Problems starting radius daemon

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Mar 26 20:08:06 CET 2009


Sanz Malagón wrote:
> Alter that, I restart the service like this  /etc/init.d/freeradius
> restart and I get this error since then
>
> Starting RADIUS daemon radiusd: pthread_mutex_lock.c:115:
> __pthread_mutex_lock: Assertion `mutex->__data.__owner == 0' failed.

  That's a pretty bad failure.  It means that the pthread mutex
implementation is broken.  Or, there's a buffer overflow somewhere that
causes the mutex to be smashed.

> Does anybody know something about this? I have been surfing in google
> and appears similar errors with other applications (pidgin, galeon…) but
> nothing with freeradius.

  It's the first time I've seen this error here.

  Alan DeKok.



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