freeradius-3.2.8-1.el9 fails to start

[George Benjin]

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.

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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 at 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-$releasever
> baseurl=http://packages.networkradius.com/freeradius-3.2/rocky/$releasever/
> 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?
>
> Thanks,
>    Dan Oachs
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