[Pkg-sssd-devel] Bug#1069289: arguments to dbus_server_get_address() were incorrect, assertion "server != NULL" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-server.c line 840

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

Source: sssd
Version: 2.8.2-4
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Hi there,

thanks for your work with the sssd packages, really appreciated.

Today I found this assert that is preventing the sssd.service from starting:

Apr 19 14:02:17 debian sssd[586]: Starting up
Apr 19 14:02:17 debian sssd[586]: dbus[586]: arguments to dbus_server_get_address() were incorrect, assertion "server != NULL" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-server.c line 840.
Apr 19 14:02:17 debian sssd[586]: This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
Apr 19 14:02:17 debian sssd[586]:   D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Apr 19 14:02:17 debian systemd[1]: sssd.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Apr 19 14:02:17 debian systemd[1]: sssd.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Apr 19 14:02:17 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start sssd.service - System Security Services Daemon.

My configuration:

$ sudo cat /etc/sssd/sssd.conf
[sssd]
domains = files
config_file_version = 2

[domain/files]
id_provider = files
access_provider = permit


Packages in my system:

$ dpkg -l *sss*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name              Version      Architecture Description
+++-=================-============-============-============================================================
ii  libnss-sss:amd64  2.8.2-4      amd64        Nss library for the System Security Services Daemon
ii  libpam-sss:amd64  2.8.2-4      amd64        Pam module for the System Security Services Daemon
ii  libsss-certmap0   2.8.2-4      amd64        Certificate mapping library for SSSD
ii  libsss-idmap0     2.8.2-4      amd64        ID mapping library for SSSD
ii  libsss-nss-idmap0 2.8.2-4      amd64        SID based lookups library for SSSD
un  libsss-sudo       <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  python3-sss       2.8.2-4      amd64        Python3 module for the System Security Services Daemon
ii  sssd              2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- metapackage
ii  sssd-ad           2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- Active Directory back end
ii  sssd-ad-common    2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- PAC responder
ii  sssd-common       2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- common files
un  sssd-dbus         <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  sssd-ipa          2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- IPA back end
ii  sssd-krb5         2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- Kerberos back end
ii  sssd-krb5-common  2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- Kerberos helpers
ii  sssd-ldap         2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- LDAP back end
ii  sssd-proxy        2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- proxy back end
ii  sssd-tools        2.8.2-4      amd64        System Security Services Daemon -- tools


I'm not sure who is to blame, if Dbus or sssd.
In any case, in my opinion, some actionable error message should be produced, rather than a weird assert.