Dear all,

more or less 1/2 month ago FreeBSD updated libxml2 its package from version 2.11.9   to version 2.14.5 and it's subsequent XML::LibXML perl package. 

With this upgrade eprints became very unstable, on our production server (3.3.15) and on our test server (3.4.6 and  3.5.0 beta 1). The instability seems to happen when it tries to read language files. For example with 3.5.0 the command 
#epadmin test [site] 

crashes with 'Bus Error' or ' Segmentation fault'

reading .../lib/lang/en/phrases/ep_template.xml

This error seems to disappear when applying this small patch

--- LibXML.pm   2025-08-26 15:02:20.844122000 +0200

+++ LibXML_new.pm       2025-08-26 15:02:46.564720000 +0200

@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@

        open(my $fh, "<", $file) or die "Error opening $file: $!";

        my $doc;

-       eval { $doc = $PARSER->parse_fh( $fh, $basepath ) };

+       eval { $doc = $PARSER->parse_fh( $fh ) };

modifying all the language xml files adding complete path on DTD definition.

Recompiling libxml2 from scratch (not using the package or ports) present the same instability.

The strange thing is that a very small program that reads the language files, without all the eprints infrastructure, works like a charme.

Anybody has found a similar problem ? Any ideas ? I can't test this problem on a Linux server for now, i fear that it is a eprints+FreeBSD related bug.

Best regards,

Paolo Tealdi

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