freeradius-3.2.8-1.el9 fails to start

[Alan DeKok]

On Aug 22, 2025, at 6:57 AM, mohair.scarves.0i--- via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
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> I can confirm this problem on AlmaLinux 9. It seems to be related to the use of pcre2 which wasn’t used before.
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> The server starts up from an interactive shell. It fails when started from systemd with the first regex it comes across.

  Well, that's unfriendly.  I would suspect that it's related to the PCRE JIT.  i.e. if you run it as root, the JIT can get executable memory.  When you run it as a non-root user, the OS won't give the JIT executable memory.

  Perhaps try 3.2.8 from an interactive shell, but as the "radiusd" or "freeradius" user.  If you get the same memory error, then that's the problem.

  We can likely patch the code, and issue RPMs of 3.2.8-1.  I don't think there's a need for an official 3.2.9 yet.

  Alan DeKok.