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Bug 321544

Summary: Downgrade inn, or move to another server
Product: Community Reporter: Denis Roy <denis.roy>
Component: Forums and NewsgroupsAssignee: Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: P3 CC: webmaster
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 302613, 321510    

Description Denis Roy CLA 2010-08-02 22:55:42 EDT
Since the SLES 11 upgrade, inn on build is no longer working.

can't seteuid to %d: %s

    (Fatal) Unable to change the effective UID. If inndstart has the correct permissions (setuid root) and seteuid to root (UID 0) is failing, this may mean that your system has seteuid(2) but doesn't have support for POSIX saved UIDs. If this is the case, please report this to the INN maintainers. 


I'll try downgrading inn to the SLES 10 SP2 version, and if that fails, I'll have to try moving it to another server.  This is currently preventing the forums from coming back online.
Comment 1 Denis Roy CLA 2010-08-02 23:36:13 EDT
The version of inn is 2.4.2 all the way through SLES 10 SP1.

Since it's related to setuid files, I get the feeling it's something related to a new kernel/config or something similar.  I'll focus on moving inn instead.
Comment 2 Denis Roy CLA 2010-08-03 13:52:38 EDT
news kernel: innd[5499]: segfault at 7f4b2c741058 ip 00007f4ad47e3147 sp 00007fffdc808240 error 4 in innd[7f4ad4797000+74000]


Looks promising...
Comment 3 Denis Roy CLA 2010-08-03 15:42:38 EDT

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 321510 ***
Comment 4 Denis Roy CLA 2010-08-03 15:43:17 EDT
I'm currently moving inn to a SLES 10 box.  In parallel I'm trying a Fedora server too.  If none of those work, I'll re-enable the web forums, disconnected from NNTP, so that at least that portion will be usable.
Comment 5 Denis Roy CLA 2010-08-03 17:19:01 EDT
I may be closing in on this...
Comment 6 Denis Roy CLA 2010-08-03 17:57:19 EDT
FINALLY!!  nntp and forums are back.