Bug#462958: sasl2-bin: saslauthd reporting 'size read failed' when auth request performed

[Joseph Knecht]

Package: sasl2-bin
Version: 2.1.22.dfsg1-16
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


root at system:~# testsaslauthd -u <username> -p <password> -f /var/spool/postfix/var/runn/saslauthd/mux
size read failed
0: 

saslauthd was working correctly up until yesterday, at which time I
performed a upgrade of all system packages.  It appears that any form of
attempted authentication (whether valid or invalid) cannot be completed
by Cyrus' saslauthd.

Thanks very much for your attention to this!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages sasl2-bin depends on:
ii  db4.4-util            4.4.20-11          Berkeley v4.4 Database Utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.18             Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                 2.7-6              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.40.3-1           common error description library
ii  libdb4.4              4.4.20-11          Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2              2.1.30.dfsg-13.5   OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g              0.99.7.1-5         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libsasl2-2            2.1.22.dfsg1-16    Cyrus SASL - authentication abstra
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8g-4           SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.1-24             Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

sasl2-bin recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  cyrus-sasl2/upgrade-sasldb2-failed:
* cyrus-sasl2/backup-sasldb2: /var/backups/sasldb2.bak
  cyrus-sasl2/upgrade-sasldb2-backup-failed:
  cyrus-sasl2/purge-sasldb2: false