BugBash-2009-02-16

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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