[JIRA] Created: (SSPCPP-423) After upgrading SP to Alpha SP 2.5 RPM from previous version of SP, shibd does not start.

[Takeshi Nishimura (JIRA)]

After upgrading SP to Alpha SP 2.5 RPM from previous version of SP, shibd does not start.
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                 Key: SSPCPP-423
                 URL: https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-423
             Project: Shibboleth SP - C++
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Installation / Packaging
         Environment: CentOS 5.7 / i386
            Reporter: Takeshi Nishimura
            Assignee: Scott Cantor


After upgrading SP to Alpha SP 2.5 RPM from previous version of SP, shibd does not start.

Error messages:
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$ sudo /sbin/service shibd start
Starting shibd: bash: line 1: 12826 Segmentation fault      /usr/sbin/shibd -p /var/run/shibboleth/shibd.pid -f -w 30
                                                           [FAILED]
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libxml-security-c16-1.6.1-3.1 (or any version in security_shibboleth repository) does not work with new shibboleth package. Version 1.6.1-4.1 (or any version in home_Scott_Cantor repository) does work.

Packages:
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$ rpm -qa | egrep log4shib\|opensaml\|shib\|xerces\|xml-security-c\|xmltooling | sort
liblog4shib1-1.0.4-5.3
liblog4shib-devel-1.0.4-5.3
libxerces-c-3_0-3.0.1-3.2
libxerces-c-3_1-3.1.1-2.1
libxerces-c-devel-3.1.1-2.1
libxml-security-c16-1.6.1-3.1
libxml-security-c-devel-1.6.1-3.1
libxmltooling5-1.4.2-3.1
libxmltooling6-1.5-33.1
log4shib-debuginfo-1.0.4-5.3
opensaml-debuginfo-2.5-16.1
opensaml-schemas-2.5-16.1
shibboleth-2.5-43.1
shibboleth-debuginfo-2.5-43.1
xerces-c-debuginfo-3.1.1-2.1
xml-security-c-debuginfo-1.6.1-3.1
xmltooling-debuginfo-1.5-33.1
xmltooling-schemas-1.5-33.1
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Backtraces:
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$ sudo gdb /usr/sbin/shibd
GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.0.1-37.el5_7.1)
... snip ...
Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/shibd...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/sbin/shibd.debug...done.
done.
(gdb) run -p /var/run/shibboleth/shibd.pid -f -w 30
Starting program: /usr/sbin/shibd -p /var/run/shibboleth/shibd.pid -f -w 30
warning: .dynamic section for "/lib/libnsl.so.1" is not at the expected address
warning: difference appears to be caused by prelink, adjusting expectations
... snip ...
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x01d0f2cb in xercesc_3_1::XMLString::transcode (toTranscode=0x4422d9 "", manager=0x0) at xercesc/util/XMLString.cpp:615
615         return gTranscoder->transcode(toTranscode, manager);
(gdb) bt
#0  0x01d0f2cb in xercesc_3_1::XMLString::transcode (toTranscode=0x4422d9 "", manager=0x0) at xercesc/util/XMLString.cpp:615
#1  0x003d0674 in DSIGConstants::create () at dsig/DSIGConstants.cpp:237
#2  0x003fa1d5 in XSECPlatformUtils::Initialise (p=0x0) at utils/XSECPlatformUtils.cpp:111
#3  0x00e7d02f in ing::XMLToolingInternalConfig::init (this=0xffa600) at XMLToolingConfig.cpp:412
#4  0x0087081b in opensaml::SAMLInternalConfig::init (this=0xc122a0, initXMLTooling=true) at SAMLConfig.cpp:167
#5  0x001a083c in shibsp::SPConfig::init(char const*, char const*) () from /usr/lib/libshibsp.so.6
#6  0x001a2e9e in shibsp::SPInternalConfig::init(char const*, char const*) () from /usr/lib/libshibsp.so.6
#7  0x08049843 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x12c
) at shibd.cpp:370
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