[Ast-devel] Login Error and spin till core dump

[Boadie <bo...@gm...>]

I see from the archives allot of people have had the same problem as  
me which is after running the install. The server is up and you go  
through the first time installation procedure but after that you  
cannot log in.

The log files are big and empty and apache reports symptoms which  
suggest the ast file is abnormally ending.

To cut a long saga short, involving a long wrestling session with  
gdb. I found that in date.cc in libatf has two pieces of nice working  
code that has been commented out and replaced with a direct reference  
to the environment.  The effect of this is a reference to a non- 
existent TZ environment variable in Apache 2. This then throws an  
exception as the date is attempted.  Then one line is written to the  
log file and it tries to use the date when writing the error log and  
of course the generates an exception.  This spins to a predictable  
core dump. To fix, remove the return std::getenv("TZ"); and uncomment  
the old code and recompile etc.

00522 std::string libatf::date::get_tz()
00523 {
00524   return std::getenv("TZ");
00525 /*  tzset();
00526   return get_tz( daylight != 0 );*/
00527 }
00528
00529 std::string libatf::date::get_tz(bool is_dst)
00530 {
00531   return std::getenv("TZ");
00532 /*  tzset();
00533   if( is_dst && tzname[1] != NULL && tzname[1][0] != 0 )
00534     return tzname[1];
00535   return tzname[0];*/
00536 }

-Boadie