[Openswan Users] ipsec__plutorun: Segmentation fault

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Bastian Lemke wrote:

> Whenever I run 'ipsec whack --name test --initiate', openswan seems to crash. The following messages are logged to syslog:
>
> Sep 14 12:58:58 schweinshaxe kernel: [17064.515945] pluto[26885]: segfault at 4 ip 000000000046055c sp 00007fff5e0d84f0 error 6 in pluto[400000+112000]
> Sep 14 12:58:58 schweinshaxe ipsec__plutorun: Segmentation fault
> Sep 14 12:58:58 schweinshaxe ipsec__plutorun: !pluto failure!:  exited with error status 139 (signal 11)
> Sep 14 12:58:58 schweinshaxe ipsec__plutorun: restarting IPsec after pause...
>
> Platform info:
> * ubuntu 11.04
> * kernel: 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
> * openswan 1:2.6.28+dfsg-5

pluto should never crash, that's a bug in the software, not your configuration

Can you try openswan 2.6.35, eg from ftp://ftp.openswan.org/openswan/binaries/ubuntu/ ?

Or a later package from your distro?

Paul