Bug 43907 - rpm core dumps while parsing nsswitch.conf (order: ldap files)
Summary: rpm core dumps while parsing nsswitch.conf (order: ldap files)
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: openldap
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-06-07 21:33 UTC by Alex Vorobiev
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-06-07 22:01:12 UTC
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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.
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