segmentation fault with reading /etc/nsswitch.conf

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

I tried to install a deb of a commercial program (free for personal
use) called compupic on my system.

Trying to run it I get a segmentation fault. Running strace show that
it dumps just after reading /etc/nsswitch.conf. I don't think that it
is doing it internally since googling for that shows that a few other
programs are doing it after the upgrade to libc6 2.3.2.

Anyone has any ideas how to solve this (apart from trying to find a
copy of libc6 2.3.1-17 and trying to handle downgrade dependencies)

The end of the strace output:

close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x40000000, 63567)               = 0
open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY)    = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=465, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40000000
read(3, "# /etc/nsswitch.conf\n#\n# Example"..., 4096) = 465
read(3, "", 4096)                       = 0
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x40000000, 4096)                = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++