Re: Cfengine 2.0.5 cfagent segfault gethostbyname

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In article <mailman.419.1063978783.21628.help-cfengine@gnu.org>,
  Dennis, Richard wrote:
> 
> I tried to run cfengine 2.0.5 that I have been running on AS2.1 (and
> compiled on AS2.1) just fine, but cfagent segfaults.  Has anyone else seen
> this before?

I don't run AS, but I have seen cfengine segfault if /etc/nsswitch.conf
is set to use db before files if db doesn't exist.  If you are only
using files (and dns for hosts), the try removing the references
to db.

Frank
 
> [root@njlxdesk1 bin]# gdb ./cfagent
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> 
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x081cb941 in _dl_relocate_object ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x081cb941 in _dl_relocate_object ()
> #1  0x081bad5f in dl_open_worker ()
> #2  0x08196a47 in _dl_catch_error ()
> #3  0x081bae9b in _dl_open ()
> #4  0x08197472 in do_dlopen ()
> #5  0x08196a47 in _dl_catch_error ()
> #6  0x08197365 in __libc_dlopen ()
> #7  0x0818b842 in __nss_lookup_function ()
> #8  0x0818c1b2 in __nss_lookup ()
> #9  0x0818d01f in gethostbyname_r ()
> #10 0x0818cc37 in gethostbyname ()
> #11 0x08085818 in GetNameInfo ()
> #12 0x08048263 in main ()
> (gdb)
> 
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