From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050912 Fedora/1.0.6-1.2.fc3 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: Lots of getpwnam() with nscd running crashes perl. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-2.3.5-10.3+patch from closed bug 169813 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.perl -e 'while(1) { getpwnam("gacek"); }' 2.wait several minutes for segfault Actual Results: perl segfaults Expected Results: no segfault Additional info: valgrind output in attachment
Created attachment 119587 [details] valgrind output
Try the current rawhide glibc and see whether you can reproduce it there.
Please reopen if/once you try current rawhide. I couldn't reproduce this.