Bug#535106: libc6-i386: getaddrinfo() fails
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:58:58PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:42:48PM +0200, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote:
> > Package: libc6-i386
> > Version: 2.7-18
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > The function getaddrinfo() in the i386 compatibility library returns
> > -2 (i.e. EAI_NONAME) for any query, while getaddrinfo() in the amd64
> > library does find the host and returns 0.
> >
>
> What is the contents of your /etc/nsswitch.conf file? It most probably
> contains an entry available on amd64, but not in i386.
Thanks!
Indeed, /etc/nsswitch.conf contained this entry:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
and there is no such thing as a /lib32/libnss_mdns4_minimal on my
system.
Removing the "[NOTFOUND=return]" part resolves the problem, though
I don't understand why: based on libc.info, I would expect that in
the absence of a libnss_mdns4_minimal, 'unavail' would be returned,
not 'notfound'.
Anyway, the problem is now gone for me, but it would be nice if it
could be fixed in the distribution. My current system is a fresh
install done a few weeks ago, and I did not edit this file by hand,
so apparently it was set up like this by some package, though I don't
know which, nor why...
Regards, Pieter-Tjerk
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