Re: proftpd segfaulting

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:44:54AM +0200, Raven wrote:
> Hi.
> Yesterday I did a fresh debian testing install on one of our servers but
> it seems that the current proftpd version in the repositories is broken:
> 
> dsrv:~# /etc/init.d/proftpd start
> Starting ftp server: proftpd/etc/init.d/proftpd: line 88:  3615
> Segmentation fault      start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile
> "$PIDFILE" --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
>  failed!
> 
> dsrv:~# aptitude show proftpd
> Package: proftpd
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 1.3.1-9
> Priority: optional
> Section: net
> 
> I am getting the same "Segmentation fault" error when starting it with
> "proftpd --nodaemon".
> I am using the following modules:
> 
> dsrv:~# cat /etc/proftpd/modules.conf 
> 
> ModulePath /usr/lib/proftpd
> 
> # Allow only user root to load and unload modules, but allow everyone
> # to see which modules have been loaded
> 
> ModuleControlsACLs insmod,rmmod allow user root
> ModuleControlsACLs lsmod allow user *
> 
> 
> LoadModule mod_sql_mysql.c
> LoadModule mod_quotatab.c
> LoadModule mod_quotatab_file.c
> LoadModule mod_quotatab_sql.c
> LoadModule mod_load.c
> 
> LoadModule mod_ifsession.c
> 
> 
> 
> Anybody experienced the same problem and have a fix/solution?
> 

You should provide your complete proftpd.conf and follow hints at
http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/Debugging.html. Anyway you are
missing 

LoadModule mod_sql.c

before mod_sql_mysql.c which is a pre-requisite.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine