I'm sorry but my antispam system caught up all of your messages and it's taken a while for me to be aware of them. I hope it won't happend ever again.
was it the error the first time you tried to install ?
Yes. Actually I've also tried with the previous 2.5 glibc versions from experimental and same result.
does it segfaults with a debian kernel (such as 2.6.18 or .20) as well ?
I also ckecked the segfault with 2.6.19 & .20 vanilla kernel. I'll try to test it for a debian one as soon as possible.
Do you run selinux or any particular stuff ?
Not the case.
ould you give your /etc/nsswitch.conf please ?
Unfortunately I cannot reach the machine right now, I'll report it later (but I've never touched such a file). Also, I'll try to setup a chroot system with just this news libs to isolate the problem (if I manually install them in the root system, the init process segfaults at the beginning).
More info: not a single problem with other x86 and x86_64 systems (but neither of them are SMP).
Thanks for your help