Re: trouble with NIS in slink update

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <cistron.199912231907.UAA14163@samson.fiz.uni-lj.si>,
Ferenc Kiraly  <feri@samson.fiz.uni-lj.si> wrote:
>OK, I guess I'm ruling out the kernel problem. I upgraded from
>kernel 2.0.38 to 2.2.14pre16 as you suggested and it made
>absolutely no difference to NIS. The above mentioned progs
>segfault just as happily as ever. So the problem remains.
>Anything else I can try? 

Yes, debug it on the source level ..

Recompile NIS with debugging (-g) on, and run the unstripped binaries
under a debugger (gdb). Then when it coredumps you can do a
stack-trace to see where it goes wrong.

Until someone who can reproduce this debugs it this way, it's
not going to be fixed ..

Mike.
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