+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1631293 +++ We should fix a regression respective to RHEL 7 in the gethostid function. Fix upstream thusly: commit 1214ba06e6771acb953a190091b0f6055c64fd25 Author: Mingli Yu <Mingli.Yu> Date: Thu Sep 20 12:02:48 2018 +0200 Linux gethostid: Check for NULL value from gethostbyname_r [BZ #23679] A NULL value can happen with certain gethostbyname_r failures. commit db9a8ad4ff3fc58e3773a9a4d0cabe3c1bc9c94c Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer> Date: Thu Sep 20 12:03:01 2018 +0200 misc: New test misc/tst-gethostid The empty /etc/hosts file used to trigger bug 23679. The upstream test will likely not run during the build because support_become_root does not yet work on the builders.
glibc-2.28-17.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-0e5874aba9
glibc-2.28-17.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-0e5874aba9
glibc-2.28-17.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.