shibd abort in Solaris 10

[Douglas E. Engert]

On 11/15/2012 8:07 AM, Steven D. Brewer wrote:
> On 11/8/12 1:52 PM, Cantor, Scott wrote:
>> It would have to be stepped to find the throw. That's where the actual bug
>> would be.
>
> After your comment, I investigated a bit.  I tried to load shibd into
> gdb and run it -- I couldn't get that to work.  I only play a unix
> programmer on TV.
>
> I finally found the command-line option to run the daemon without
> dissociating from the controlling terminal and saw this:
>
>> # /usr/local/shibboleth/sbin/shibd -u shibd -g shibd -f -F -c /usr/local/shibboleth/etc/shibboleth/shibboleth2.xml
>> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'xercesc_3_1::TranscodingException'
>> Abort (core dumped)

Sounds like:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1913
Fixed in the library in 2010.
Solaris may be a bit behind...

>
> This suggested that the problem was in the Xerces Transcoding library.
> When compiling Xerces (and things that linked against it), I had run
> into some problem with undefined symbols:
>
>> Undefined                       first referenced
>>   symbol                             in file
>> libiconv_close                      /usr/local/shibboleth/lib/libxerces-c.so
>> libiconv_open                       /usr/local/shibboleth/lib/libxerces-c.so
>> libiconv                            /usr/local/shibboleth/lib/libxerces-c.so
>> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest
>
> I had worked around them by adding a -liconv to the end of the LDFLAGS,
> which allowed me to successfully build stuff, but was a clue as to where
> the problem was.
>
> Our gnuiconv was from unixpackages.org.  I recompiled xerces using the
> iconv from Solaris.
>
>> # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/shibboleth --enable-netaccessor-socket --enable-transcoder-iconv
>
> After recompiling everything that depended on xerces, I now have a shibd
> that appears to work correctly.
>
> Cheers!
>

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