[SSSD] authentication problem causes log to fill up disk.

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Tue Feb 19 17:30:30 UTC 2013


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 08:37:37AM -0500, Mark London wrote:
> Hi - I'm using SSSD 1.8.93 on redhat, which has worked great for

                 ^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure about the version? This sounds like some 1.9 pre-release in
which case you should definitely upgrade.

> many many months.  Recently, the certificate for our ldap server
> expired, and then an incorrect one was installed.  This is has
> caused SSSD authentications to intermittently fail, and the SSSD log
> files start to fill up with constant messages, like the following:
> 
> (Mon Feb 18 14:00:15 2013) [sssd[nss]] [accept_fd_handler] (0x0020):
> Accept failed [Too many open files]
> 

I think you are hitting https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1655.
Anyhow, the 1.9 series contains quite a couple of fixes related to f
leaks. I recommend upgrading.

> This caused the system disk to be totally filled up, breaking
> everything else running on the server.  Perhaps SSSD could try to
> automatically restart, when this error message is encountered?  Or
> perhaps someone can suggest a better solution to this problem.
> Thanks. - Mark
> 
> 
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