[Bug 971314] Re: 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3 on Precise generates a memory corruption

[Sergio Rubio]

I can confirm this too. I wonder if it's somewhat related to bug 941968

Apparently in our case (we use puppet to provision the server),
/etc/init.d/ntp start gets stuck (maybe because lockfile-create
segfaults?) while the package postinstall script is run, so puppet gets
stuck too while provisioning.

We've found two ways to workaround the issue:

1. Use shorter hostnames
2. Rename /usr/bin/lockfile-create to /etc/bin/lockfile-create.bak so /etc/init.d/ntp does not find. Restore it back to /usr/bin/lockfile-create after the ntp package install.

Both workarounds are somewhat hackish, so it would be great if someone
could reproduce it and give it a higher priority :).

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