Bug#420604: nscd: coredumps (ldap related?)

[adrian@smop.co.uk (Adrian Bridgett)]

A few updates:

I did try rerunning the gdb backtrace after installing libc6-dbg but
got the same backtrace.  I had already downgraded libnss-ldap to 7.4,
but nscd still ended up eating all the CPU.

I had previously done a "nscd -i hosts" (and passwd and group) I
believe which didn't help.

Finally I stopped nscd, removed /var/db/nscd/* and restarted nscd
(with the libc6-dbg package installed).  So far it has been a week
with no problems, no crashes, no 100% CPU usage.

I suspect there was a problem with /var/db/nscd/* files.   I had been
upgraded all the boxes (including LDAP servers) from sarge to etch.

Adrian