<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Bret,<div><br></div><div>This could be the same as another issue we are currently investigating. Can you open an issue in our public Gitlab for Kea? </div><div><br></div><div>Go to our development repo at <a href="https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea">https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/kea</a> and click on issues, and create a new issue. Please mark it as confidential, since it is a crash. Then you will receive updates to the ticket as we investigate.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br></div><div>Vicky Risk<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 7, 2025, at 12:11 PM, Giddings, Bret via Kea-users <kea-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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I’m trying to move our environment from 2.6 to 3.0 so have setup one subnet to be served by the new version. This appears to work w.r.t. issuing leases for the subnet in question. However, it also crashes (seemingly randomly) with</div>
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kea-dhcp4: /usr/include/boost/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.hpp:728: typename boost::detail::sp_member_access<T>::type boost::shared_ptr<T>::operator->() const [with T = const isc::dhcp::Subnet4; typename boost::detail::sp_member_access<T>::type = const isc::dhcp::Subnet4*]:
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Debian 12.11</div>
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Using Cloudsmith images:</div>
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# dpkg -l | grep kea</div>
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ii isc-kea-common 3.0.0-isc20250717111736 amd64 Common libraries for the ISC Kea DHCP server</div>
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ii isc-kea-dhcp-ddns 3.0.0-isc20250717111736 amd64 ISC Kea DHCP Dynamic DNS service</div>
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ii isc-kea-dhcp4 3.0.0-isc20250717111736 amd64 ISC Kea IPv4 DHCP server</div>
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ii isc-kea-hooks 3.0.0-isc20250717111736 amd64 Hook libraries for ISC Kea DHCP server</div>
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Is this a known issue and if not, what additional information is required to debug it.</div>
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Relevant Kea config which is pretty much identical to 2.6 config with exception of control-sockets is</div>
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{</div>
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"Dhcp4": {</div>
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"interfaces-config": {</div>
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"interfaces": [</div>
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"eth0"</div>
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],</div>
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"dhcp-socket-type": "udp",</div>
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"service-sockets-require-all": true,</div>
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"service-sockets-max-retries": 100,</div>
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"service-sockets-retry-wait-time": 5000</div>
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},</div>
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"control-sockets": [</div>
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{</div>
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"socket-type": "http",</div>
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"socket-port": 8000</div>
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"multi-threading": {</div>
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"enable-multi-threading": true,</div>
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"thread-pool-size": 2,</div>
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"packet-queue-size": 64</div>
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},</div>
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"lease-database": {</div>
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"type": "memfile",</div>
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"lfc-interval": 1500</div>
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},</div>
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"valid-lifetime": 43200,</div>
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"expired-leases-processing": {</div>
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"reclaim-timer-wait-time": 3600,</div>
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"hold-reclaimed-time": 172800,</div>
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"max-reclaim-leases": 0,</div>
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"max-reclaim-time": 0</div>
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"hooks-libraries": [</div>
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"library": "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/kea/hooks/libdhcp_lease_cmds.so"</div>
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"library": "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/kea/hooks/libdhcp_flex_option.so",</div>
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"parameters": {</div>
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"options": [</div>
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"code": 61,</div>
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"remove": "member('dhcp-3') or pkt4.giaddr == 10.246.127.253"</div>
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"dhcp-ddns": {</div>
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"enable-updates": true,</div>
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"server-ip": "127.0.0.1",</div>
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"server-port": 53001,</div>
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"sender-ip": "",</div>
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"sender-port": 0,</div>
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"max-queue-size": 1024,</div>
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"ncr-protocol": "UDP",</div>
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"ncr-format": "JSON"</div>
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"ddns-send-updates": true,</div>
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"ddns-override-no-update": false,</div>
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"ddns-override-client-update": true,</div>
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"ddns-replace-client-name": "always",</div>
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"ddns-generated-prefix": "host",</div>
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"ddns-qualifying-suffix": “example.com",</div>
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"ddns-update-on-renew": true,</div>
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"hostname-char-set": "",</div>
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"reservations-global": true,</div>
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"authoritative": true,</div>
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"ip-reservations-unique": false,</div>
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"match-client-id": false,</div>
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{"name": "dhcp-42"}</div>
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"reservations": [</div>
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"id": 503,</div>
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"subnet": "10.245.34.128/26",</div>
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"option-data": [</div>
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{ "name": "routers" , "data": "10.245.34.190" },</div>
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"valid-lifetime": 28800,</div>
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"pools": [{"pool-id": 10503042, "client-class": "dhcp-42", "pool": "10.245.34.129 - 10.245.34.185"}],</div>
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