Bug 186626 - concerning /etc/nsswitch.conf
Summary: concerning /etc/nsswitch.conf
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 186592
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 5
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-24 20:13 UTC by JeeBee
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-03-24 21:37:12 UTC
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Description JeeBee 2006-03-24 20:13:37 UTC 
Description of problem:
[root@localhost tmp]# wget google.com
--20:28:59--  http://google.com/
           => `index.html.1'
Resolving google.com... failed: No such file or directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.4-4

How reproducible:
I could only try this once.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a correctly working FC4 installation.
2. Upgrade fedora-release package with rpm.
3. Run 'yum update' without errors and have a FC5 installation with this problem.
  
Additional info:

[root@localhost tmp]# uname -a
Linux foo 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 #1 Tue Mar 14 15:48:33 EST 2006 i686 athlon
i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost tmp]# rpm -q fedora-release wget yum
fedora-release-5-5
wget-1.10.2-3.2.1
yum-2.6.0-1
Comment 1 JeeBee 2006-03-24 20:19:30 UTC 
Duhhh, sorry, I am not being very clear.
The problem was the "nisplus" in the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
  hosts:      files nisplus dns

After removing nisplus there, both wget and 'yum update' worked again.
Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2006-03-24 21:37:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186592 ***
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