Re: problem using python-ldap under fcgi

[Michael S. <mi...@st...>]

Matt Bartolome wrote:
> I've got a little problem and I'm not sure how to track down the error
> I'm getting. My web server is spitting back a 504 gateway timeout
> which isn't helpful at all so I'm hoping someone here can point me in
> the right direction.
> 
> When I attempt to:
> 
>             l = ldap.initialize(settings.AD_LDAP_URL)
>             l.simple_bind_s(binddn,password)
>             l.unbind_s()
> 
> I get the gateway timeout but this works perfectly fine in the python
> interpreter. I'm running django as an fcgi preforked socket and
> pointing my nginx fcgi server to it.

As my web2ldap - based on python-ldap - runs as a FastCGI server this 
seems to work. But web2ldap is multi-threaded and does not fork when 
running as FastCGI process because of keeping the LDAP connections 
persistent.

> All web requests work fine until
> I hit the l.simple_bind_s() function so I'm having a heck of a time
> finding out what the actual error is. The only other output I've been
> able to produce is:
> 
> *** glibc detected *** python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08e9b1ec ***
> 
> this is when I don't background the fcgi process.

No clue especially since I don't know the Django stuff.

Ciao, Michael.