[Samba] libnss_wins crashing Firefox/Iceweasel?

Michael Schurter michael at susens-schurter.com
Fri Mar 2 14:37:41 GMT 2007


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Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Michael Schurter wrote:
>> I'm using Debian Sid, and it seems like Iceweasel (aka Firefox) has been
>> crashing a lot lately with "Bus Error" printed to stdout when it dies.
> 
>> I use mono/.net and python, so my C/C++ debugging skills are very
>> lacking.  I was able to capture the following using gdb on Iceweasel:
> 
>> Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
>> [Switching to Thread -1288709200 (LWP 28528)]
>> 0xb1a98309 in toupper_w () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> 
>> Ironically I've had libnss_mdns cause a crash like this in Samba before,
>> so maybe this is just Samba getting payback.  ;)
> 
>> Any ideas?
>> Is this a Samba or Iceweasel bug?
>> Should I submit it to Debian?
>> Has anyone else seen this?
> 
> Can't say that I have but I don't usually run libnss_wins.so.
> If it were aq bug in nss_wins (which is very well could be)
> you should see similar crashes in other programs.

The only reason I use nss_wins is because logging into Active Directory
with pam_winbind.so doesn't seem to work if I don't.  Perhaps its not
able to resolve the AD servers?  I really never worried about it until
nss_wins started having problems.

I haven't noticed any other programs crashing, but I don't think I have
any other programs doing lots of name resolution.  This bug is pretty
elusive, so it might only show up in Firefox/Iceweasel which easily does
the most name lookups on my machine.

Thanks for the quick response.

Michael Schurter
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