[Bug 286119] Re: firefox 3.0.3 crashes (no SIG) on most pages w images: 8.10beta AMD64

[Chris Unitt]

I think I've managed to find the cause of this: winbind!

This was my nsswitch.conf file:

# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try:
# `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file.

passwd:         compat winbind
group:          compat winbind
shadow:         compat

hosts:          files wins mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
networks:       files

protocols:      db files
services:       db files
ethers:         db files
rpc:            db files


I removed all references to winbind from this file and did an 'aptitude remove winbind'

Firefox is now stable, tried re-installing flash and re-activating my
plugins, no crashes since!

Someone else with a 64-bit machine should now try to re-create this if
possible and then hopefully we will have a definitive way to reproduce
this.

Is it a firefox bug or a winbind bug? Should a seperate bug be raised as
a winbind issue?

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firefox 3.0.3 crashes (no SIG) on most pages w images: 8.10beta AMD64
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286119
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