Solved: [OpenAFS-devel] Re: ptserver coredumps (1.5.78 on FreeBSD 8.1)

[u-openafsdev-njsf@aetey.se]

Hello Simon,

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:27:28PM +0000, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> It is just supergroups that's broken. The horrific pointer  
> manipulation games that the supergroups code plays aren't safe on some  
> 64bit platforms.

This looks plausible...

> acdef43d818ee56e6c1f1dc29f508c02793c8355 was just pushed to master to  
> fix this there - it will need backported to the 1.6 and 1.4 branches.

Applying this patch to 1.5.78... it does indeed fix the segfaults,
the server looks happy and I can use it.

Thanks Simon, you saved my day!

(it was Christof Hanke who is the author of the commit, thanks Christof!)

Rune