Crashes with 1.0.4/1.0.5, perhaps connected with slow LDAP backend?

[Martin Pauly]

Alan,
> > Thu Sep 29 20:33:19 2005 : Error: Assertion failed in modcall.c, line 68
>   If you can get a core dump, and do 'bt' in gdb, and also do 'print
> *p' at the point of the assertion, that would help a lot.
> 
>   But my main suspect right now is bad memory.  The code hasn't
> changed in a long time, and I doubt you're doing anything really weird
> to the server.
well, I'm trying hard not to confuse my dear servers :-)

Funny enough, following an advice from our LDAP admin
I changed the ldap query directive sequence in radiusd.conf 
on one machine from 
Auth-Type LDAP {
	redundant {
          ldap1
          ldap2
          ldap3
	}
}
to 
Auth-Type LDAP {
	redundant {
          ldap3
          ldap1
	}
I.e. I avoided our most loaded LDAP server.
I also enabled coredumps and ran in full debug mode all Friday.
Guess what? No crashes over the long weekend (we had a holiday on monday)
Given the erratic behavior, I will indeed give the hardware a closer look.

Thanks so far
Martin
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