SRU justification: impact: 1. in use, nscd can frequently crash, thus denying caching, leading to higher network load and latency on lookups -> therefore high impact in a NFS and/or multi-user environment 2. user may experience notification that nscd has crashed, compromising desktop experience
resolution: -> backported Ulrich Drepper's (glibc maintainer) upstream fixes for nscd corruption and crashing patch: -> minimal patch attached testcase: 1. enable nscd in multi-user and/or NFS environment where multiple passwd and group lookups will occur 2. generate lookups 3. nscd may hit assertion after 2x garbage-collection intervals (~60s), else continue lookups potential regression: -> none identifiable -- nscd crashed with SIGSEGV in start_thread() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256157 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
