Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Patrik Schnellmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ab can be called as follows: > ab -n 1 -c 20 http://sp.example.org/foo-admin > foo-admin being a shib protected URL. I'm not sure if this will really > take the shibd down as I didn't verify that myself. One of our users > just told me. > Mayb

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-08-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:23:53PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > tags 434645 - etch > thanks > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:03:42AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'm not at all sure how to use the BTS properly to represent all of this, > > so I'm qui

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-08-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
tags 434645 - etch thanks On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 10:03:42AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm not at all sure how to use the BTS properly to represent all of this, > so I'm quite happy to follow your preferences. I'm just going to remove the etch tag,

Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a little confused about the status of bug #434645. As far as I can > see it's not a bug in bug in libapache2-mod-shib, and the problem is in > liblog4cpp4 (#432729) > But the bug is marked "etch", meaning that only the version in etch has > the probl

Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've uploaded xerces27-2.7.0-4 with this patch. I also reported it to > upstream. I looked at the current file in their subversion repository, > and it appears that there has been some tweaking to this since 2.7.0 for > performance reasons, so maybe t

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-08-05 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:42:08PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Patrik Schnellmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That's why I added the 'etch' tag. I really hope we will get a stable > > package soon. > > If the log4cpp folks do include this fix in their next release as the > maintainer wa

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-08-04 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Anyway, here is the entirety of the modification applied by the >>> Shibboleth project other than spec file changes and version changes >>> (they released their ver

Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
severity 434645 serious retitle 434645 shibboleth-sp: pthread-buggy log4cpp causes crashes under load block 434645 with 432729 severity 432729 important thanks Patrik Schnellmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, first of all I would like to thank you for the great work you do > as a Debian pac

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Anyway, here is the entirety of the modification applied by the >> Shibboleth project other than spec file changes and version changes >> (they released their version as Xerces-C 2.7.1, which I find really >> a

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-26 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, here is the entirety of the modification applied by the > Shibboleth project other than spec file changes and version changes > (they released their version as Xerces-C 2.7.1, which I find really > annoying). I'm happy to file this as a bug report

Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Patrik Schnellmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've reported a bug for the Debian package libapache2-mod-shib which > depends on liblog4cpp. The problem apparently are threading issues > which are solved with the patch below. Please also make sure the package > is compiled with pthread support.

Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Fathi Boudra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i will upload log4cpp 0.3.5 new upstream release (announced july) with > the patch. i'll see if we can include it before it will be tagged. Excellent, thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- To

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-26 Thread Fathi Boudra
hi all, i will upload log4cpp 0.3.5 new upstream release (announced july) with the patch. i'll see if we can include it before it will be tagged. cheers, Fathi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-26 Thread Patrik Schnellmann
Hi Fathi I've reported a bug for the Debian package libapache2-mod-shib which depends on liblog4cpp. The problem apparently are threading issues which are solved with the patch below. Please also make sure the package is compiled with pthread support. --- ./log4cpp-0.3.5-rc3/src/Appender.cpp

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm the xerces maintainer for debian. I haven't looked at the original > bug yet, but if there's a patch I can apply, I'm willing to do so. My > usual approach is to file with upstream and accept it if they do. Is > the xerces-c patch posted to the o

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-26 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
> It seems that xerces-c's memory consumption also leads to stability problems > in shibd. I'm not sure if the Shibboleth SP specific patch will do for all the > others using xerces. At least with the patch in xerces-c, the Shibboleth SP > runs stable and faster. > > It would be nice to have the x

Bug#432729: Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-26 Thread Patrik Schnellmann
Well, first of all I would like to thank you for the great work you do as a Debian package maintainer. We were happy to see a Debian package for the shibboleth-sp in the stable distribution and someone taking the chore of packaging. Russ Allbery wrote: > severity 434645 important > tags 434645 -

Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
severity 434645 important tags 434645 - security thanks Patrik Schnellmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: libapache2-mod-shib > Version: 1.3f.dfsg1-2 > Severity: grave > Tags: security > Tags: etch > X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Denial of service atta

Bug#434645: Shibboleth-sp crashes under load

2007-07-25 Thread Patrik Schnellmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Package: libapache2-mod-shib Version: 1.3f.dfsg1-2 Severity: grave Tags: security Tags: etch X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] After a high number of requests to a shibboleth protected URL, the shibd process dies. It