From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 Description of problem: I received the errata for the xinetd (RHSA-2003:160) and tried to upgrade the package. I downloaded the latest and ran an MD5 on the package. Checks out 100%. The RPM itself installs just fine without an errors whatsoever. However, when I restart the xinetd service, it segfaults. Moving back to a previous version seems to be the current workaround. Here is some info from /var/log/messages: May 13 23:31:45 beam xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded May 13 23:32:29 beam xinetd[28115]: 28115 {general_handler} (28115) Unexpected signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) May 13 23:32:29 beam xinetd[28115]: 28115 {bad_signal} Received 10 signals in 1 seconds. Exiting... May 13 23:32:29 beam xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded ** Here is where I re-installed the previous version ** May 13 23:34:46 beam xinetd[28181]: xinetd Version 2.3.7 started with libwrap options compiled in. May 13 23:34:46 beam xinetd[28181]: Started working: 4 available services May 13 23:34:49 beam xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See above. Additional info:
Can you attach to this bug the contents of your /etc/xinetd.conf, the output of an ls -lf of /etc/xinetd.d and the contents of all the files in /etc/xinetd.d ? It might be easiest to create a tar file of all this stuff and attach it to the bug, rather than attaching the individual files.
Created attachment 91688 [details] All requested files
There is a typo in /etc/xinetd.d/ipop3: s/#service/service/ I don't know the details as to why this crashes the new version but worked on the last version, but making this change allows you to start the 2.3.11 xinetd service.
As suggested, I removed the extra hash mark from the file. I then tried re-installing the package. This time, I was able to start the xinetd service without a problem. I am surprised, as you mentioned, that the older version allowed this to work just fine. The other thing that surprises me is the xinetd didn't error out, but rather segfaulted. I reported the issue since I thought that the segfault was a little extreme for just an extra hash mark. It's working well though. No other problems on this front.
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