Assertion failed w/krb5-1.4.1 on FreeBSD-5.3

[Dennis Davis]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Jeff Aitken wrote:

>Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:51:10 -0400
>From: Jeff Aitken <jaitken at aitken.com>
>To: kerberos at mit.edu
>Subject: Assertion failed w/krb5-1.4.1 on FreeBSD-5.3
>
>I recently installed a new FreeBSD-5.3 system designed to
>function as a master KDC.  I then built and installed krb5-1.4.1.
>Initially, I ran ./configure with:
>
>    --enable-shared --enable-static --without-krb4
>
>After installation, I could not run krb5kdc due to a failed
>assertion.  A bit of googling led me to add the following to
>./configure:
>
>    --disable-thread-support
>
>After rebuilding and reinstalling, things seemed to work.  I was
>able to run krb5kdc (and kadmind), and am able to log in remotely
>with ssh using kerberos for authenticaion.  I am also able to use
>'ksu' to become root.  However, when I exit the root shell, I get
>the following error message:
>
>    Assertion failed: ((&_m->os)->initialized == K5_MUTEX_DEBUG_INITIALIZED), 
>    function krb5_fcc_destroy, file cc_file.c, line 1526.
>
>This doesn't appear to be critical at first glance, but I'm
>wondering what else might not work properly.  Based on some
>additional googling, I tried rebuilding with:
>
>    --disable-shared --enable-static --without-krb4 --disable-thread-support
>
>but got the same result.  Any ideas?

No, but I'm seeing similar errors on OpenBSD3.5 & OpenBSD3.6 with
both krb5-1.4 and krb5-1.4.1.  I haven't tried running the kdc, but
both kinit and klist give errors similar to the above.  However both
commands seem to work OK.

I've compiled with:

--disable-shared --enable-static --disable-thread-support

The --disable-shared is there to avoid any possible clashes with the
installed Heimdal kerberosV libraries.  I've had trouble with this
in the past.

I *don't* see these problems with krb5-1.4 and krb5-1.4.1 on an
(obsolete) OpenBSD3.3 system.

My gut feeling (ie I could well be completely wrong) is that the
--disable-thread-support argument to configure isn't being fully
obeyed and some thread support is being picked up.  I haven't even
thought about how I'd look into this.
-- 
Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
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