Bug 416033 – sys-libs/glibc-2.15: random crashes when nscd is not running

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Matthias Dahl 2012-05-15 06:08:35 UTC]

A bug in the glibc-2.15 release manifests itself without reproducible crashes in different applications (e.g. chromium). The cause has been bisected and a fix is available.

Here a few info links:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13594
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741021
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133021&p=2
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/glibc&id=8e950112da65c96ad17cbd650ac9db3050343a3f

Is there any chance to get this fix or revert in the tree?

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Matthias Dahl 2012-05-15 06:09:53 UTC]

s/without reproducible/with reproducible/

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2012-05-18 05:03:58 UTC]

i've added the fix merged upstream to our 2.15-r2

http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.15/0094_all_glibc-2.15-nscd-race.patch?rev=1.1

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2012-05-18 05:04:57 UTC]

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Add fix from upstream for crashes in nscd code when nscd is not running
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.15-r2.ebuild?rev=1.1