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Description of problem:
After updating to kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 from updates, ntpd fails to restart,
as a service, or will die of SIGSEGV if launched directly. This is confirmed
on two different hosts, one is an old Athlon 700 on a AMD-751 MB, the other
one is a more recent P4 (Dell PowerEdge 750), running kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3,
BTW.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a small configuration file for ntpd, like this one:
cat /tmp/ntp-tmp.conf
server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org

2. Depending on your selinux configuration, you may need to set the right
type:
chcon -t net_conf_t /tmp/ntp-tmp.conf

3. Run:
ntpd -q -g -c /tmp/ntp-tmp.conf


Actual Results:  [root@vis01 ~]# ntpd -q -g -c /tmp/ntp-tmp.conf
Segmentation fault

[root@srv03 ~]# ntpd -q -g -c /tmp/ntp-tmp.conf
Segmentation fault


Expected Results:  ntpd should set the date after a while (anyway, should not SIGSEGV)

Additional info:

This is a regression. I've got many hosts running either ntpd as a client
(as a replacement for ntpdate) or as a server, all tested with all kernels
from FC3 before 2.6.11-1.14_FC3. A quick test shows the problems exists
also if ntpd is used in normal daemon mode. On the P4, reverting to
2.6.10-1.770_FC3 solves the problem. The Athlon server used to run  2.6.10-1.770_FC3 just fine.

Weird enough, using strace it seems to fail at different, random, places:

run1:
read(10, "#\n# /etc/nsswitch.conf\n#\n# An ex"..., 4096) = 1686
read(10, "", 4096)                      = 0
close(10)                               = 0
munmap(0xb7ffb000, 4096)                = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

run2:
gettimeofday({1114001558, 283781}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1114001558, 284029}, NULL) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

run3:
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
adjtimex({modes=61, offset=0, freq=0, maxerror=16, esterror=16, status=64, constant=0, precision=1, tolerance=33554432, time={1114001571, 330177}}) = 5rt_sigaction(SIGSYS, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

Sometimes it even works fine. I've never managed to have it not fail
w/o strace. With strace, on the P4 it succeeds more often than on the
Athlon (I'm not implying this is anyhow useful info - just reporting
everything I noticed).