netgroup: nis in nsswitch.conf causes libc6 to fail and programs like sudo or rpc.mountd to crash

[D2K]

if in /etc/exports

/export/bml_nobackup @local_hosts(rw,sync)

then e.g. rpc.mountd fails:

root@corona-nh:/etc# /etc/init.d/nfs-user-server restart
Stopping NFS servers: mountd nfsd.
Starting NFS servers: nfsd mountd.
root@corona-nh:/etc# rpc.nfsd: nss_nis/nis-netgrp.c:78: _nss_nis_setnetgrent: Assertion `len > 0' failed.

If I set

/export/bml_nobackup corona-nh(rw,sync)

everything runs okay.

Same as bug:#369536 in Debian: http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2006/05/msg00385.html

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

Hallo, Thank you for reporting this bug.

Is this bug still present in Edgy ?
Regards TLE

[D2K (david-hellier-csiro)]

This bug appears to be fixed in edgy.

[Peter Whittaker (pwwnow)]

Marking as "Fixed released" based on DTK's comment (with guidance from Luka).

[TLE (k-nielsen81)]

Great. What about those upstream bugs. Should we do anything with them ?
\TLE

[Peter Whittaker (pwwnow)]

I believe it would be up to Debian users to determine whether this bug is still present in Debian, and to update the upstream report accordingly. There are Debian users in the Ubuntu community, so this may or may not get noticed from Launchpad and addressed in debbugs.

Likewise an Ubuntu glibc developer might verify the GNU sources and act accordingly.

But since the bug is no longer present in Ubuntu, there isn't much more we can do from here.

[Jeff Bailey (jbailey)]

Well, the upstream bug was linked incorrectly to Debian. I disconnected it and marked it as fix released. Since our package inherits directly from upstream, that task can be safely closed. The tracking bug on Debian will update as Debian fixes it in their archive. As they're in freeze for release, I wouldn't expect that they'll update soon, though.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey