Hi, Conan.
That's strange, I'm also using Shib SP v2.6, and I don't see any problems **at SP's side**. It seems to digest IdP's metadata, and when I try to initiate login flow, it sends me back to IdP (Gluu CE 3.0), that's when [another issue](https://github.com/GluuFederation/oxShibboleth/issues/23#issuecomment-278262372) happens (which is already attended by our dev team), but that doesn't seem like your case.
What output `# shibd -v` at your SP machine does give?