kinit locking up

Jon DeVree jadevree at mtu.edu
Sun Dec 11 01:25:45 EST 2005


On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 05:36:06PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jon DeVree <jadevree at mtu.edu> writes:
> 
> > futex(0x804d2f4, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL)   = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system
> > call)
> 
> > Of course I Ctrl+C'd kinit after a few seconds.
> 
> Of course, I can't manage to reproduce this (or I wouldn't have uploaded
> the new Kerberos packages to Debian until I got to the bottom of it).  I'm
> rather unclear as to what could be going on, or why it would be sensitive
> to whether or not you gave your principal name on the command line.
> 
Well as soon as I remove getpwuid() from the function that looks up my
username kinit works flawlessly although not terribly usefully.

>
> Out of curiousity, if it's easy for you, could you install the kstart
> package and try obtaining a ticket with k5start?  It should work basically
> like kinit, but it's an independent implementation.  That should isolate
> whether it's some sort of library problem or possibly a problem in kinit
> itself.
> 
k5start seems to be working fine.
Also if I didn't mention it, pam_krb5 is working fine too.
SSH fails if it tries GSSAPIAuthentication. It locks up in the same futex
function presumably in the same spot of libkrb5.

-- 
Jon
"Only in the tales that humans tell do the hunters kill the wolves in the end." -- Jin-Roh
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