[Bug 997096] Re: nscd segmentation fault

[Adam Conrad]

Disabling caching netgroups certainly doesn't fix the bug, but it works
around it well enough.  The glibc in precise-proposed does this.

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Title:
  nscd segmentation fault

Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  nscd segfaults a few seconds after every getent netgroup requests:

  root at cmo-cluster2:~# nscd -d 
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:54 PM UTC - 13953: register trace file /etc/passwd for database passwd
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:54 PM UTC - 13953: register trace file /etc/group for database group
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:54 PM UTC - 13953: register trace file /etc/services for database services
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:54 PM UTC - 13953: register trace file /etc/netgroup for database netgroup
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:54 PM UTC - 13953: cannot stat() file `/etc/netgroup': No such file or directory
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:56 PM UTC - 13953: handle_request: request received (Version = 2) from PID 13962
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:56 PM UTC - 13953: 	GETFDNETGR
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:56 PM UTC - 13953: handle_request: request received (Version = 2) from PID 13962
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:56 PM UTC - 13953: 	GETNETGRENT (cmo-nfs-netgroup)
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:56 PM UTC - 13953: Haven't found "cmo-nfs-netgroup" in netgroup cache!
  Wed 09 May 2012 12:59:56 PM UTC - 13953: provide access to FD 11, for netgroup
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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