amsn crashes with segmentation fault on login

[Timo.Denissen]

Binary package hint: tk8.5

1) Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
2) apt-cache policy amsn
amsn:
  Installiert: 0.97.2~debian-0ubuntu3
  Kandidat: 0.97.2~debian-0ubuntu3
  Versions-Tabelle:
 *** 0.97.2~debian-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3) login in the MSN-network
4) aMSN crahses after entering email-address and password. in the terminal it just sais "segmentation fault"

I installed aMSN from the Ubuntu 8.10 repositories

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/wish8.5
Package: tk8.5 8.5.3-3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tk8.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Ken Foskey (foskey)]

From another website: http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6343

Ah I see, the bug comes from libnss_wins.so.. I've never seen this library but it looks like some kind of samba library or something that ubuntu might have... so it's not amsn, it's not even tcl or tk.. it's actually the library that tries to resolve the messenger.hotmail.com hostname into an ip address...
nothing we can do here, I'm sure though that the ubuntu people will be able to help more than us!

Quote:
0xb6787286 in _nss_wins_gethostbyname_r () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2

libnss_wins.so is part of the winbind package, which description is :
Quote:
Description: Samba nameservice integration server
Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems,
providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with
Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. Samba can also function
as an NT4-style domain controller, and can integrate with both NT4 domains
and Active Directory realms as a member server.
.
This package provides winbindd, a daemon which integrates authentication
and directory service (user/group lookup) mechanisms from a Windows
domain on a Linux system. User/group lookups are configured via
/etc/nsswitch.conf, and authentication is integrated using the winbind
module for PAM.
Homepage: http://www.samba.org

[Ken Foskey (foskey)]

Seems to be this problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tk8.5/+bug/200397

I enabled wins recently so it fits my symptoms.

[Ken Foskey (foskey)]

Can confirm that removing wins resolves the crash.

#hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] wins dns mdns4
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Since this report have a long time without activity, could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Thanks in advance.

[Timo.Denissen (timo-denissen)]

No, does not crash in Karmic.

[DragonSG (dragon)]

Hello

this issue is still happening with karmic (all updates), winbind 3.4.0-3ubuntu5.4 and aMsn 0.98.2-0+svn11903~kkamsn1 (aka 0.99b) from launchpad ppa.

Greetings

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for tk8.5 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]