http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2546
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-03-04 22:21 ------- I've got a similar problem with [EMAIL PROTECTED] client (http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/release/FAH3Console-Linux.exe) 1. Launch the program 2. Configure (enter, enter, enter... it's just a test) 3. The client will try connect to server and segfaults ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: With -10mdk, my VPN client that IBM provides was broken. Apparently there is a bug/feature in 2.3.1 that caused this. Here is a transcript of a work-around for this problem: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I figured out how to get around the glibc 2.3 (used in debian unstable) problem. The problem is that attvpnctl is core dumping with a segfault. It's the result of statically linking to a library that dynamically loads shared libraries to do name resolution. (Why is it statically linked!?!) Anyway, the fix is to: 1) edit attvpnctl with emacs. 2) search for /etc/nsswitch.conf and change to /etc/nsswitc-.conf. 3) save and exit from emacs. THE FILE SIZE SHOULD NOT HAVE CHANGED! 4) now copy /etc/nsswitch.conf to /etc/nsswitc-.conf 5) edit /etc/nsswitc-.conf change the line hosts: files dns to hosts: dnsnoexist Yes, dnsnoexist is invalid, but that is the point, we can't load anything! Any shared library is going to segfault! Now your good to go! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am also able to work around it using LD_LIBARARY_PATH set to a directory containing the library binaries from the -6mdk version. I'm not sure if this is what was fixed or not, but this is the closest I can find in their tracking system: http://bugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=glibc&pr=4744 Someone told me that Slackware has incorporated a fix into their glibc which fixed the problem. I'm hoping that someone can find the patch and incorporate it into Mandrake's glibc. I checked the glibc-cvs list archives, but they apparently don't include the patches in the archive.
