Bug 43907

Summary:	rpm core dumps while parsing nsswitch.conf (order: ldap files)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Alex Vorobiev <sasha>
Component:	openldap	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Alex Vorobiev 2001-06-07 21:33:55 UTC

Description of problem:
rpm 4.0.2-8
glibc-2.2-12

/etc/nsswitch.conf:
passwd: ldap files
same for shadow and group

while installing apache 1.3.19-5, core dumps

from strace it looks like it chokes while parsing the /etc/nsswitch.conf
file

if order reversed (files ldap), the installation works fine

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. specify ldap files order in nsswitch.conf file as above
2. try to install apache
3.
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-06-07 22:01:10 UTC

Rpm doesn't know ldap from padl, so this is a ldap problem, ...

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-07-03 20:28:11 UTC

This is a rare run-in with limitations on use of dynamically-loaded modules in
statically-linked binaries.  A workaround which gets around the problem by
shunting the queries to another process is to isntall and use nscd.  At some
point we'll have a better solution for this.