FreeRADIUS 2 not listening on right port

[John Dennis]

Phil Mayers wrote:
> Alan DeKok wrote:
>> Michael Griego wrote:
>>> I did a little looking into this this evening.  This assessment looks to
>>> be correct as it looks to be related to compiler optimizations.  With
>>> the optimizations disabled in Make.inc, FreeRADIUS will start up on the
>>> correct port.  For the fr_socket function, gcc appears to be optimizing
>>> the arguments by sending them through the registers instead of the stack
>>> frame, but the "port" argument is being clobbered ("optimized out")
>>> before the htons(port) call.  Specifically, according to a step-through
>>> with GDB, after the first function call in fr_socket (which is to
>>> socket()), the port variable is gone ("optimized out").
>>
>>   <sigh>  I've started testing the server with other compilers.  GCC is
>> getting too ugly for my liking.
>>
>>   I'll put a note on the main web page.: DON'T USE -O2 ON FEDORA!
> 
> I can confirm this; I've opened a bug in the Fedora bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446864
> 
> ...with any luck, the toolchain will get fixed - it's clearly not a 
> FreeRadius bug, and I wonder what else it's broken...

FYI, I have rebuilt the F-9 RPM with optimization turned off and 
submitted it for an update (should hit the mirrors sometime soon).

Just a heads up. I have some time constraints at my end. The only thing 
I had time for before leaving until next Wednesday was to rebuild the 
package, I cannot not confirm at this moment if the resulting package 
resolves the issue, but given the comments in this thread it would 
appear to solve the problem in the near term. I thought it was 
worthwhile to push the new RPM out, even under these constraints.

When I return I will investigate the root cause of the failure further. 
Obviously this is a temporary workaround and if there are compiler 
issues it needs to get addressed as soon as possible.

In the interim I would appreciate feedback on the new package.

The new package is: freeradius-2.0.3-3.fc9

My sincere thank you to everyone who contributed to diagnosing the 
problem and my apologies for not catching this earlier.

-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>