Description of problem: When trying to visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[whatever] and loading the page in firefox or konqueror the browsers will crash with a SIGABRT Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-2.8.90-14.i686 (I do not know if this related to what is fixed in -15 or not) How reproducible: 100% when initially trying to load url above afterwords ok Steps to Reproduce: 1. load up browser, type in url above, watch browser crash Actual results: Web browsers crash (you can only reproduce this in either, but you have to have a cold system booted) Expected results: Webpage loads corrected DNS lookup ok. Additional info: - no nscd cache daemon is being used. - IPv6 is enabled but no IP configured for interface * Sorry, I don't have firefox debuginfo installed but those symbol addrs can be found in as rawhide is frozen most updates. Crash from gdb caught: ===================== Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. [Switching to Thread 0xb2aa7b90 (LWP 6893)] 0x00130416 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt f #0 0x00130416 in __kernel_vsyscall () No symbol table info available. #1 0x002a44c0 in raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 resultvar = <value optimized out> pid = 4100084 selftid = 6893 #2 0x002a5e88 in abort () at abort.c:88 act = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0x67726f03, sa_sigaction = 0x67726f03}, sa_mask = {__val = {1661166848, 50359663, 7171939, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2997509564, 162888408, 46331224, 0 <repeats 22 times>}}, sa_flags = 0, sa_restorer = 0} sigs = {__val = {32, 0 <repeats 31 times>}} #3 0x02c31bad in gaih_getanswer_slice (answer=0xb2aa6390, anslen=<value optimized out>, qname=0xaad70f4 "meta.wikimedia.org", patp=0xb2aa6bb0, bufferp=0xb2aa6bac, buflenp=0xb2aa6ba8, errnop=0xb2aa716c, h_errnop=0xb2aa715c, ttlp=0x0, firstp=0xb2aa6ba4) at nss_dns/dns-host.c:1103 buffer = 0xb2aa6c1f "calhost6.localdomain6" buflen = 993 pat = (struct gaih_addrtuple **) 0xb2aa7170 cp = <value optimized out> end_of_message = (const u_char *) 0xb2aa6433 "��\201\200" packtmp = "\twikimedia\003org\000\003org\000org\000com\000co\002uk", '\0' <repeats 218 times>, "�\033�\001" n = <value optimized out> haveanswer = 0 had_error = <value optimized out> canon = 0xb2aa6c00 "rr.wikimedia.org" h_name = 0xb2aa6c11 "wikimedia.org" h_namelen = 14 #4 0x02c3217e in gaih_getanswer (buflen=1024, buffer=0xb2aa6c00 "rr.wikimedia.org", pat=0xb2aa7170) at nss_dns/dns-host.c:1190 No locals. #5 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r (name=0xaad70f4 "meta.wikimedia.org", pat=0xb2aa7170, buffer=0xb2aa6c00 "rr.wikimedia.org", buflen=1024, errnop=0xb2aa716c, herrnop=0xb2aa715c, ttlp=0x0) at nss_dns/dns-host.c:321 host_buffer = {buf = 0xb2aa6390, ptr = 0xb2aa6390 "�\037\201\200"} ans2p = (u_char *) 0xb2aa6433 "��\201\200" nans2p = 1885 resplen2 = 92 olderr = 0 status = <value optimized out> n = 6 #6 0x00340b63 in gaih_inet (name=0xaad70f4 "meta.wikimedia.org", service=0x0, req=0xb2aa72f8, pai=0xb2aa72b4, naddrs=0xb2aa72a4) at ../sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c:714 herrno = 1 pat = (struct gaih_addrtuple **) 0xb2aa7170 no_inet6_data = 0 nip = (service_user *) 0x8f1b310 status = NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND no_more = <value optimized out> tmpbuflen = 1024 tmpbuf = 0xb2aa6c00 "rr.wikimedia.org" no_data = 0 inet6_status = NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL tp = <value optimized out> st = (struct gaih_servtuple *) 0xb2aa7040 at = (struct gaih_addrtuple *) 0xb2aa7010 rc = 0 got_ipv6 = false canon = 0x0 port = <value optimized out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "gaih_inet" #7 0x003428a7 in getaddrinfo (name=0xaad70f4 "meta.wikimedia.org", service=0x0, hints=0xb2aa72f8, pai=0xb2aa7318) at ../sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c:2154 i = <value optimized out> last_i = <value optimized out> nresults = <value optimized out> p = (struct addrinfo *) 0x0 gaih_service = {name = 0xb2aa72ac "\004", num = 5022282} pservice = (struct gaih_service *) 0x6 local_hints = {ai_flags = -1297452456, ai_family = 1294396, ai_socktype = 150596436, ai_protocol = 0, ai_addrlen = 66, ai_addr = 0xb2aa72ac, ai_canonname = 0x13d494 "\203�\030\205�\017D�[^_]�\211�\203{ �\017\225�\203�\001\201�\200", ai_next = 0x0} in6ai = (struct in6addrinfo *) 0x9f1eff0 in6ailen = 4 seen_ipv4 = true seen_ipv6 = true naddrs = 0 __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "getaddrinfo" once = 2 lock = 0 #8 0x004cc5f9 in PR_GetAddrInfoByName () from /lib/libnspr4.so No symbol table info available. #9 0x006e5606 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so No symbol table info available. #10 0x004da0b1 in ?? () from /lib/libnspr4.so No symbol table info available. #11 0x0013951f in start_thread (arg=0xb2aa7b90) at pthread_create.c:297 __res = <value optimized out> __ignore1 = <value optimized out> __ignore2 = <value optimized out> pd = (struct pthread *) 0xb2aa7b90 now = <value optimized out> unwind_buf = {cancel_jmp_buf = {{jmp_buf = {1351668, 0, 0, -1297451864, 32299093, 1914865456}, mask_was_saved = 0}}, priv = {pad = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, data = { prev = 0x0, cleanup = 0x0, canceltype = 0}}} not_first_call = <value optimized out> robust = <value optimized out> #12 0x0035d02e in clone () from /lib/libc.so.6
Is this related to #466786
Is this related to bug 466786
We need the network traffic recorded for this. Run wireshark to capture DNS traffic and then look up that site. The servers shouldn't reply with anything but IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. It seems the server you use does.
I have created Bug 471450 which might be related
With the workaround added by Ulrich, this is fixed.