Bug#347545: marked as done (login crashes when trying to use nis)
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Subject: login crashes when trying to use nis
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Package: nis
Version: 3.15-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
(arguably critical; when installed, renders login unusable)
When root tried to su - eddy it got this response on stderr:
-su: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:79: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `malloc_usable_size (netgrp->data) >= len + 1' failed.
When I try to log on at a terminal, I get exactly the same response,
but without the -su: prefix (however, it was much easier to capture the
response from root's shell using 2>file, and e-mail it to myself).
I had
+::0:
as the last line of my /etc/group and
+@host::::::
as last line of /etc/passwd, for a suitable host name on our local
network, and, after first seeing the above error, also added this line
at the end of /etc/shadow, but this made no visible difference.
Naturally, I had to remove all of those before I could log in.
My nis/domain is a local domain served by another host on the local
network, which /etc/yp.conf is configured to consult; ypcat passwd's
output did include lines for eddy on that server, and /var/yp/binding/
did get entries (.1 and .2) for the domain specified.
The debconf info (which used to contain the nis/domain datum discussed
above) says nis is "not yet configured". Since I've uninstalled nis
and re-installed it recently, I can only suppose this is due to the
installation scripts not configuring nis. Getting to the point above
had involved a great deal of guess-work, reading of man pages,
stumbling by chance on relevant files and filling those with data by
trial and error. Nothing made itself even remotely obvious as a "how
to tell nis to configure itself", even in the course of all that
rummaging. Running dpkg-reconfigure, I get consulted for the
nis/domain value; it already knows the value I had configured it to by
hand; and I think this was run when I re-installed nis. (The prompt
for this is, fundamentally, unhelpful: only when I'd got it wrong, and
rummaged a lot as above, did I discover a passing comment, probably in
a man page: from which I realized that it isn't a domain name in the
normal sense; and gleaned that the datum is stored in
/etc/defaultdomain, and must match that on the nis server, so went to
the ypserver and looked in its /etc/defaultdomain to discover the
correct value. It would be worth saying "look in your NIS server's
/etc/defaultdomain for the authoritative version of this variable" or
some such.) I didn't get consulted for the ypserver's IP address, nor
was I asked whether I wanted to enable nis in passwd and group.
Until the package's installation scripts ask those questions and sort
out the correct magic in /etc/*, this package is not ready for normal
mortals to use: crucial information is only available by asking
someone who already knows, or by insane amounts of effort, persistence
and lucky guess-work. But I digress.
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages nis depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.66 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libslp1 1.2.1-5 OpenSLP libraries
ii make 3.80+3.81.b4-1 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii netbase 4.24 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii portmap 5-16 The RPC portmapper
ii sysvinit 2.86.ds1-4 System-V like init
nis recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* nis/not-yet-configured:
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Subject: Bug#322011: fixed in glibc 2.3.5-12
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Source: glibc
Source-Version: 2.3.5-12
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
glibc, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
glibc-doc_2.3.5-12_all.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/glibc-doc_2.3.5-12_all.deb
glibc_2.3.5-12.diff.gz
to pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.3.5-12.diff.gz
glibc_2.3.5-12.dsc
to pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.3.5-12.dsc
libc6-amd64_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-amd64_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
libc6-dbg_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
libc6-dev-amd64_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev-amd64_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
libc6-dev_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
libc6-i686_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-i686_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
libc6-pic_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
libc6-prof_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
libc6-udeb_2.3.5-12_i386.udeb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-udeb_2.3.5-12_i386.udeb
libc6_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
libnss-dns-udeb_2.3.5-12_i386.udeb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libnss-dns-udeb_2.3.5-12_i386.udeb
libnss-files-udeb_2.3.5-12_i386.udeb
to pool/main/g/glibc/libnss-files-udeb_2.3.5-12_i386.udeb
locales_2.3.5-12_all.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.3.5-12_all.deb
nscd_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
to pool/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.3.5-12_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 322011@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Denis Barbier <barbier@debian.org> (supplier of updated glibc package)
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Source: glibc
Binary: libc6-dev-amd64 libc6-i686 libc6-dev-ppc64 libc0.3-pic glibc-doc libc1-udeb libc0.3 libc6.1-dev libc1-pic libc6-s390x libnss-files-udeb libc1-dbg libc6-dev-sparc64 libc0.3-dev libc6-udeb libc6-dbg libc6.1-pic libc6-dev libc0.3-prof libc6-sparcv9 libc6.1-prof libc1 locales libc6-pic libc0.3-udeb libc1-prof libc6-ppc64 libc0.3-dbg libc6-amd64 libc6-prof libc6 libc6-sparcv9b libc6.1-udeb libc6.1-dbg nscd libc6-sparc64 libnss-dns-udeb libc6.1 libc1-dev libc6-dev-s390x
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 2.3.5-12
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Denis Barbier <barbier@debian.org>
Description:
glibc-doc - GNU C Library: Documentation
libc6 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
libc6-amd64 - GNU C Library: 64bit Shared libraries for AMD64
libc6-dbg - GNU C Library: Libraries with debugging symbols
libc6-dev - GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
libc6-dev-amd64 - GNU C Library: 64bit Development Libraries for AMD64
libc6-i686 - GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i686 optimized]
libc6-pic - GNU C Library: PIC archive library
libc6-prof - GNU C Library: Profiling Libraries
libc6-udeb - GNU C Library: Shared libraries - udeb (udeb)
libnss-dns-udeb - GNU C Library: NSS helper for DNS - udeb (udeb)
libnss-files-udeb - GNU C Library: NSS helper for files - udeb (udeb)
locales - GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]
nscd - GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon
Closes: 233308 235759 254417 254993 271549 310635 322011 328831 334762
Changes:
glibc (2.3.5-12) unstable; urgency=low
.
* debian/patches/glibc235-nis-netgrp.diff: New file to fix assertion
failures with NIS. (Closes: #322011)
* Switch to quilt to handle Debian patches.
- debian/control.in/main: add Build-Depends: quilt.
- Replace debian/rules.d/dpatch.mk by debian/rules.d/quilt.mk.
- Rename debian/patches/*.dpatch into debian/patches/*.diff.
- Move localedata patches into debian/patches/localedata/
* debian/patches/localedata/cvs-localedata.diff: Update to latest CVS.
Among other changes:
- locales/mn_MN: Fix date_fmt. (Closes: #328831)
- locales/de_DE: Add transliterations for quoting characters.
(Closes: #235759)
- locales/ss_ZA locales/tn_ZA locales/ve_ZA locales/nso_ZA
locales/ts_ZA: New files. (Closes: #254417)
- locales/km_KH: New file. (Closes: #334762)
- locales/mg_MG: New file. (Closes: #271549)
- locales/sr_CS: New file. (Closes: #254993)
* debian/patches/locale-iso4217.diff: Update to latest CVS.
This includes changes from glibc235-localedata-sr_CS.diff, which
is no more needed.
* debian/patches/locale-iso639.diff: New file.
* debian/patches/locale-ku_TR.diff: New file, to provide a Kurdish
locale needed by d-i. This locale comes from upstream CVS, and has
been updated to the latest patch sent to BZ870.
* debian/patches/localedata/locale-eo_EO.diff: Apply minor updates to
this locale file. Add eo and eo.UTF-8 to SUPPORTED. (Closes: #233308)
* Import collation fixes and enhancements for localedef from
belocs-locales-bin.
* debian/patches/forward-backward-collation.diff: New file. Due to the
fixes in localedef, some bugs in code which was previously never run
did show up. (Closes: #310635)
* debian/patches/locale/locale-print-LANGUAGE.diff: New file, so that
locale displays the LANGUAGE environment variable when called without
argument.
* Add myself to Uploaders.
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