Michael Ströder wrote:

hyc@symas.com wrote:

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Further testing with Andrew's kvm image shows the hang only occurs when Cyrus SASL's libsasldb2.so plugin is present.

Probably you already checked whether there's a BDB library mix.

Yes, the version is the same, BDB 4.7. However it's possible that BDB 4.7 doesn't like being initialized multiple times, as occurs here. I haven't yet looked more deeply to see what the real cause is.