[NFDB-users] nfdb and OpenBSD 4.5?

[Jason Dixon]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 08:23:25PM -0400, Bryan Allen wrote:
> I've run into a couple issues getting nfdb (from trunk) working on 4.5.
> 
> First off, 4.5's GD seems hosed:
> 
> $ perl -e 'use GD'
> Can't load '/usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/amd64-openbsd/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: Cannot load specified object at /usr/libdata/perl5/amd64-openbsd/5.10.0/DynaLoader.pm line 203.
>  at -e line 1
> Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

Dunno what your problem is here, but it's obviously separate from NFDB.
It's not an issue with OpenBSD's packages per se, because I've used Perl
GD on many of my OpenBSD 4.5 systems.  By all accounts you broke
something but I'm not sure what.
 
> Looking at `objdump -p`, I seem to have all the deps for the Perl XO object and
> libgd. I installed xbase by hand (as in an upgrade), if that matters.
> 
> Secondly, flowd seems to die if the logfile is a FIFO:
> 
> Sep  3 19:39:20 a-fw-sd flowd[9963]: start_log: lseek: Illegal seek
> Sep  3 19:39:20 a-fw-sd flowd[17707]: child exited with status 1
> 
> This looks like an issue that was fixed a few years ago... regression?
> 
> Anyone have any workarounds for 4.5?

NFDB was developed on and works fine with 4.5.  Your issues are specific
to your system.  I'm not sure what, but something is broken.

If you can reproduce this on a virgin 4.5 system I'd love to know.

Thanks,

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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
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