bug#13958: Failing net-db.test on armv5tel glibc 2.17

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 02:36:40PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Lluís Batlle i Rossell <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > I think this log should be enough. I have a dns server at 127.0.0.1,
> > and I have in nix.conf:
> > build-use-chroot = false
> >
> >
> > Excerpt of the strace log:
> > 16993 connect(7, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), 
> > sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = 0
> 
> So you disabled nscd?  (The request goes directly to the DNS server.)

Right.

> > 16993 
> > open("/nix/store/83fff5psdwad2vcy44lv5gwyzfmj4433-glibc-2.17/lib/libnss_myhostname.so.2",
> >  O_R
> > DONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> 
> This is most likely the culprit.  Presumably you forgot to add
> libnss_myhostname to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH, no?
> 
> Also, what does /etc/nsswitch.conf look like?

The hosts line:
hosts:     files  dns  myhostname

Ok, so the source of that bad-handled message is a NSS problem in nix builds
without chroot.

What should be the proper user program reaction to that EAI_AGAIN + errno?

Regards,
Lluís.