Incompatibility with Solaris and Berkeley DB 6.x

[VeloAddict]

Mar 18 16:44:38 gurde afpd[1817]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Login by admin (AFP3.4)
Mar 18 16:44:38 gurde cnid_dbd[1818]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:38 gurde cnid_metad[454]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error in sendmsg: Broken pipe
Mar 18 16:44:38 gurde afpd[1817]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] read: Connection reset by peer
Mar 18 16:44:39 gurde cnid_dbd[1819]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:40 gurde cnid_dbd[1820]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:41 gurde cnid_dbd[1821]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:42 gurde cnid_dbd[1822]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:43 gurde cnid_dbd[1823]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:44 gurde cnid_dbd[1824]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:45 gurde cnid_dbd[1825]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:46 gurde cnid_dbd[1826]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:47 gurde cnid_dbd[1827]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:48 gurde cnid_dbd[1828]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:49 gurde cnid_dbd[1829]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:50 gurde cnid_dbd[1830]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:51 gurde cnid_dbd[1831]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:52 gurde cnid_dbd[1832]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:53 gurde cnid_dbd[1833]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:54 gurde cnid_dbd[1834]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:55 gurde cnid_dbd[1836]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:56 gurde cnid_dbd[1837]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:57 gurde cnid_dbd[1838]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:58 gurde cnid_dbd[1839]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] error setting flags for database name.db: Unknown error
Mar 18 16:44:59 gurde afpd[1817]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] transmit: Request to dbd daemon (volume tank) timed out.
Mar 18 16:44:59 gurde afpd[1817]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] afp_openvol(/tank): Fatal error: Unable to get stamp value from CNID backend
Mar 18 16:45:01 gurde afpd[1817]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] AFP logout by admin
Mar 18 16:45:01 gurde afpd[1817]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] dsi_stream_read: len:0, unexpected EOF
Mar 18 16:45:01 gurde afpd[1817]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] afp_over_dsi: client logged out, terminating DSI session
Mar 18 16:45:01 gurde afpd[1817]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] AFP statistics: 0.59 KB read, 0.44 KB written

[ghost]

Please post to ML or sourceforege.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/netatalk-admins
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/netatalk-devel
http://sourceforge.net/p/netatalk/bugs/

not here.

[rdmark]

Further analysis in https://sourceforge.net/p/netatalk/bugs/592/ ; quoting:

It seems to be related to Berkley DB 6.x. After I downgraded my Berkley DB to 4.8, all connections to netatalk / afp shares are working perfectly.

[rdmark]

I propose the action here is to make v5 of BDB the recommended version, since it's the last version under the permissive Sleepycat license, and therefore the version that's shipped with the most operating systems.

A mirror of the final Sleepycat release here: https://github.com/berkeleydb/libdb/releases/tag/v5.3.28

Some discussion on the licensing in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB

If we all agree, I propose updating the documentation, e.g.

• https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/3.1/htmldocs/installation.html
• https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/2.2/htmldocs/installation.html

Additionally, we may want to update the autoconf check to warn when v6 or later is detected.

[rdmark]

Interestingly, I was able to compile and use netatalk3 with db18 on FreeBSD when hacking db3-check.m4 to check for db18:

checking for Berkeley DB headers in /usr/local/include/... no
checking for Berkeley DB headers in /usr/local/include/db18... yes
checking /usr/local/include/db18/db.h version >= 4.6.0... yes
checking Berkeley DB library (-ldb181)... no
checking Berkeley DB library (-ldb18.1)... no
checking Berkeley DB library (-ldb-181)... no
checking Berkeley DB library (-ldb-18.1)... 18.1.40 ... yes

It seems to work but is error prone and slow, but not sure if that's due to other environmental factors right now, since FreeBSD is not what I usually run.

[rdmark]

BDB 6.x checks were added in 2015 with d30a3e7

[rdmark]

Made the recommended BDB version 5.3.x in #446 and #447