I just wanted to report that I am also experiencing this issue recurring on the same machine, with the same setup. As I reported previously, the problem is occurring on an etch amd64 machine with users/groups in a remote LDAP database. Purging /var/db/nscd does solve the problem temporarily, but it recurs after a while. I'm still investigating what might be triggering the database corruption. I have a feeling that it might have to do with a large query of the database all at once, but I don't yet have proof. If there are any suggestions of things to try to ferret out what exactly is going on, I would be happy to try them.
In the meantime I'm writing a runit service directory for nscd that will handle keeping the daemon running and purging /var/db/nscd if it crashes. jamie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]