BugBash-2009-02-16

The first BugBash of 2009 was held at February 16th, at 20:00 UTC.

In contrast to the previous Bug Bashes (which considered various outstanding entries from the Patches tracker), this meeting looked at selected items from the Bug tracker.

Theme - Perl bugs

In particular, the following entries are concerned with assorted aspects of the Perl support within the project.

Bugs discussed

Build issues

• 2446289 2008-12-18
  fails to build with embedded perl 5.10
• 1693539 2007-04-03
  Compiling perl fails if --disable-mib-loading configured
  Dave understands the issues, and will look into it
• 1600099 2006-11-21
  5.4+ on AIX: embedded Perl build fails w/ xlc
  Underlying problem/workaround documented in README.aix
  Tracker entry closed
• 1336127 2005-10-24
  perl build can pick up other installation
• 898863 2004-02-17
  Perl module tests referencing installed Net-SNMP

MIB-handling

• 1658172 2007-02-12
  translateObj doesn't translate last couple dots plus numbers
• 1577884 2006-10-16
  parsing error for gettable() against objects with 2 indices
  Works for both Wes & Dave - e.g. with udpTable. Probably down to problems loading the original MIB
• 1554817 2006-09-08
  Cannot call getRootOID in a perl handler
  Wes understands the issues, and will look into it
• 1404244 2006-01-12
  Handling "BITS" data types in SNMP.xs
• 1335347 2005-10-23
  SNMP.pm does not like .iso oids
• 1207663 2005-05-24
  SNMP.pm: Unknown Object Identifier (enterprises) unless MIB
• 766867 2003-07-06
  SNMP::MIB{<oid>} no long works

Bugs not covered

SNMP Requests

• 1825150 2007-11-03
  Possible serious bug in NET-SNMP (bulkwalk + loops)
• 1532278 2006-08-01
  SNMP.pm RetryNoSuch doesn't work as documented
• 1336170 2005-10-24
  perl get requires varbinds ?
• 1227066 2005-06-24
  SNMP::Session: retrynosuch doesn't work with callback
• 655267 2002-12-17
  Problem with bulkwalk (netsnmp 5.0.1)

O/S-specific

• 1673010 2007-03-03
  ld.so.1: perl: fatal: relocation error: file SNMP.so symbol
• 1665465 2007-02-21
  cygwin TrapReceiver.dll error
• 1662991 2007-02-18
  5.4 make test #44 failure on centos 4.3 and solaris 9
• 1494882 2006-05-25
  5.3.x CVS snmptrapd embedded perl crash on x86_64

Other issues

• 1267617 2005-08-24
  5.2.2.pre1 SNMP.pm crash; fails to resolve ObjectValue->OID
• 1206613 2005-05-22
  Munging Perl's stack: Use of freed vlaue in iteration
• 998598 2004-07-27
  memleak in async perl interface
• 834859 2003-11-03
  perl bulkwalk (asynchronous) causes cleanup to segfault