[DragonFlyBSD - Bug #2850] /var/run/sem does not exist nor is writeable -- openldap unstartable

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Issue #2850 has been updated by benjolitz.


This install was made several months ago from a USB boot image onto a a PCIE SSD, if that helps narrow down.

One thing that would have made this easier to debug would be if sem_open() had written a warning to the syslog that a vital path (/var/run/sem or whatever LIBTHREAD_SEM_PREFIX points to) doesn't exist.

I believe I can get the exact date for the install image I used if that would confirm the issue

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Bug #2850: /var/run/sem does not exist nor is writeable -- openldap unstartable
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/2850#change-12727

* Author: benjolitz
* Status: New
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: dillon
* Category: Userland
* Target version: 
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I spent the better part of two hours trying to make OpenLDAP slapd start up using the mdb backend.

Slapd would complain:

    56404f69 mdb_db_open: database "dc=telemuse,dc=net": dbenv_open(/var/db/openldap-data).
    56404f69 mdb_db_open: database "dc=telemuse,dc=net" cannot be opened: Invalid argument (22). Restore from backup!
    56404f69 backend_startup_one (type=mdb, suffix="dc=telemuse,dc=net"): bi_db_open failed! (22)

Using ktrace/kdump I found this:
    141609 slapd    GIO   fd 2 wrote 88 bytes
           "56404f69 mdb_db_open: database "dc=telemuse,dc=net": dbenv_open("
    141609 slapd    RET   write 88/0x58
    141609 slapd    CALL  mmap(0,0x101000,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON,0xffffffff,0,0)
    141609 slapd    RET   mmap 77860864/0x4a41000
    141609 slapd    CALL  mmap(0,0x201000,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON,0xffffffff,0,0)
    141609 slapd    RET   mmap 79101952/0x4b70000
    141609 slapd    CALL  mmap(0,0x10000,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON,0xffffffff,0,0)
    141609 slapd    RET   mmap 81203200/0x4d71000
    141609 slapd    CALL  munmap(0x804d80000,0x1000)
    141609 slapd    RET   munmap 0
    141609 slapd    CALL  mmap(0,0x10000,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON,0xffffffff,0,0)
    141609 slapd    RET   mmap 81264640/0x4d80000
    141609 slapd    CALL  munmap(0x804d71000,0xf000)
    141609 slapd    RET   munmap 0
    141609 slapd    CALL  open(0x800896500,O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_CLOEXEC,S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR)
    141609 slapd    NAMI  "/var/db/openldap-data/lock.mdb"
    141609 slapd    RET   open 8
    141609 slapd    CALL  fcntl(0x8,F_SETLK,0xfffffffffffff040)
    141609 slapd    RET   fcntl 0
    141609 slapd    CALL  lseek(0x8,0,0,SEEK_END)
    141609 slapd    RET   lseek 8192/0x2000
    141609 slapd    CALL  mmap(0,0x2000,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_SHARED,0x8,0,0)
    141609 slapd    RET   mmap 9932800/0x979000
    141609 slapd    CALL  fstat(0x8,0x7ffffffff090)
    141609 slapd    RET   fstat 0
    141609 slapd    CALL  unlink(0x7fffffffec60)
    141609 slapd    NAMI  "/var/run/sem/MDBrWwwoS_=F1x"
    141609 slapd    RET   unlink -1 errno 2 No such file or directory


Reading https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=sem_open&section=3 indicated that this may be something broken with how sem_open is implemented (where else would /var/run/sem ever appear?)

When I set LIBTHREAD_SEM_PREFIX to /tmp, slapd worked.

Therefore, I deduced a possible solution to be:

    mkdir -p /var/run/sem
    chmod 1777 /var/run/sem

Packages affected by this "fun" error:

net/openldap24-server

... and anyone else who dares use or indirectly calls sem_open().

I would normally consider this a show-stopper bug, but I'll leave that to the experts.

It was not fun to diagnose.




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