Bug#467609: failed assertion in nscd (hstcache.c:364) on host name lookup

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

forcemerge 451552 467609
thanks

Fabien COUTANT a écrit :
> Package: nscd
> Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> This looks a lot like #451552, except the bug *still* occurs on more
> recent versions.  I expect this grave bug would have been fixed
> _in_etch_ by the time...

This bug is still opened, nobody know how to fix it. Merging the two bugs.

> Setting debug-level to 16383 in /etc/nscd.conf, and running nscd -d in
> a terminal gives the following crash before a few minutes to hours (even
> when nscd was started after invalidating the caches with nscd -i):

Do you also have the problem without -d ?

> [...cut...]
>> 10152: add new entry "adtech.panthercustomer.com" of type GETHOSTBYNAME for hosts to cache (first)
>> 10152: Reloading "adtech.panthercustomer.com" in hosts cache!
>> 10152: add new entry "adtech.panthercustomer.com" of type GETHOSTBYNAME for hosts to cache (first)
>> 10152: Reloading "adtech.panthercustomer.com" in hosts cache!
>> 10152: add new entry "adtech.panthercustomer.com" of type GETHOSTBYNAME for hosts to cache (first)
>> 10152: Reloading "adtech.panthercustomer.com" in hosts cache!
>> 10152: add new entry "adtech.panthercustomer.com" of type GETHOSTBYNAME for hosts to cache (first)
>> 10152: Reloading "ecx.images-amazon.com" in hosts cache!
>> nscd: hstcache.c:364: cache_addhst: Assertion `hst->h_addr_list[1] == ((void *)0)' failed.
>> Aborted
>


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