reassign 425344 distributed-net
retitle 425344 Distributed.net breaks when using nss-mdns
severity 425344 important
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:31:00PM -0400, James Stark wrote:
> Package: libnss-mdns
> Version: 0.10-0.1
> Severity: critical
>
> Justification: Renders unrelated packages unusable.
>
> The presence of the libnss-mdns package causes the distributed.net client to
> fail with a floating point exception when it tries to perform a name look up.
>
> According to strace (output attached) the error occurs around the time that
> the distributed.net client accesses "/lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2".
> Removing the libnss-mdns package allows distributed.net to function normally.
>
> I can reproduce this error at will. I have tested the i386 version of the
> distributed.net client on the same machine and it runs without problems so
> this bug seems to be architecture dependant.
>
> I am including the output of distributed.net and the error reported by the
> kernel in addition to the afore mentioned strace output.
I spent some time tracking this down. According to the strace it crashes around
the time it would normally call into the mdns nss lib. Adding some debug info
to nss-mdns showed that it never actually gets to that point though.
At this point i'm out of options, the distributed-net package contains no
source code and it's a static binary. So i can't debug this further (without
spending absurd amounts of time).
Reassigning this to distributed-net as it seems to work fine with all other
applications.
Sjoerd
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