We are experiencing the same issue. We even tested on brand new RHEL 9 VM with no custom config (kept at default): bash-5.1# journalctl -u radiusd [output cut] Aug 22 00:05:08 vm-68a7af574aa13c7161eb42f4.us-east-1.compute.is.apple.com radiusd[24832]: Compiling Post-Auth-Type REJECT for attr Post-Auth-Type Aug 22 00:05:08 vm-68a7af574aa13c7161eb42f4.us-east-1.compute.is.apple.com radiusd[24832]: /etc/raddb/policy.d/filter[31]: Invalid regular expression: Aug 22 00:05:08 vm-68a7af574aa13c7161eb42f4.us-east-1.compute.is.apple.com radiusd[24832]: /etc/raddb/policy.d/filter[31]: Aug 22 00:05:08 vm-68a7af574aa13c7161eb42f4.us-east-1.compute.is.apple.com radiusd[24832]: /etc/raddb/policy.d/filter[31]: ^ Pattern JIT failed: no more memory Aug 22 00:05:08 vm-68a7af574aa13c7161eb42f4.us-east-1.compute.is.apple.com systemd[1]: radiusd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 22 00:05:08 vm-68a7af574aa13c7161eb42f4.us-east-1.compute.is.apple.com systemd[1]: radiusd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Aug 22 00:05:08 vm-68a7af574aa13c7161eb42f4.us-east-1.compute.is.apple.com systemd[1]: Failed to start FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server. On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM George Benjin <george.benjin@gmail.com> wrote:
We're experiencing a very similar issue with our Alma 9 machines after the update.
FreeRADIUS works fine when started in debug mode, but the service will not start.
Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: PARTICULAR PURPOSE Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: You may redistribute copies of FreeRADIUS under the terms of the Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: GNU General Public License Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYRIGHT Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: FreeRADIUS is developed, maintained, and supported by InkBridge Networks. Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: For commercial support, please email sales@inkbridgenetworks.com Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: https://inkbridgenetworks.com/ Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: Starting - reading configuration files ... Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: /etc/raddb/proxy.conf[31]: Invalid regular expression: Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: /etc/raddb/proxy.conf[31]: .+$ Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 radiusd[109867]: /etc/raddb/proxy.conf[31]: ^ Pattern JIT failed: no more memory Aug 22 11:48:58 NZWLGRA1 systemd[1]: radiusd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
I temporarily removed all regex expressions in my proxy.conf file (error referenced above) and tried starting the service, but then got the same policyd/filter error that Dan recorded.
On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 at 03:26, Dan Oachs via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
I have a Rocky Linux release 9.6 system running with: freeradius-3.2.7-1.el9.x86_64 freeradius-mysql-3.2.7-1.el9.x86_64 freeradius-utils-3.2.7-1.el9.x86_64
I am using the networkradius repo: [networkradius] name=NetworkRADIUS-$releasever baseurl=
enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey= https://packages.networkradius.com/pgp/packages%40networkradius.com
After doing a DNF update to my system today results in radiusd failing to start.
/var/log/messages has what looks like some relevant error messages: Aug 21 10:14:12 farmhand radiusd[2668739]: /etc/raddb/policy.d/filter[31]: Invalid regular expression: Aug 21 10:14:12 farmhand radiusd[2668739]: /etc/raddb/policy.d/filter[31]: Aug 21 10:14:12 farmhand radiusd[2668739]: /etc/raddb/policy.d/filter[31]: ^ Pattern JIT failed: no more memory Aug 21 10:14:12 farmhand systemd[1]: radiusd.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 21 10:14:12 farmhand systemd[1]: radiusd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
If I downgrade back to 3.2.7-1 the service starts as usual.
Am I missing a step in the upgrade or something?
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