Bug#574990: nscd crashes after moderate use

[Lukas Kolbe <lkolbe@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>]

Package: nscd
Version: 2.7-18lenny2
Severity: grave

Hi,

on all (?) our servers we see repeated crashes of nscd:

[ 3687.306397] nscd[3340]: segfault at 10 ip 00007f6b22ce3685 sp 00007fffc977bb60 error 6 in nscd[7f6b22cdd000+1c000]

This happens mostly between 3000 and 6000 seconds after starting. We
have 3003 users in our LDAP, so we increased the 'suggested-size' to a
high prime number 99991, removed the dbs and restarted nscd. The crashes
happen nevertheless, rendering nscd completely unusable on our systems.
I'd like to provide more debugging information, but I don't really know
how at the moment ...

Thanks,
Lukas