Debian bug with WINS in /etc/nsswitch.conf

[fermulator]

Good day!

I'd like to report a bug please.

On most (all?) debian linux distributions, the 0.97, and 0.97.2 (at least) have this problem.

 1. Installed amsn.
 2. Open amsn
 3. enter login information
 4. click "Sign in" or "check for new updates" and amsn produces a segmentation fault.

Turns out if we have the "wins" entry in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file this causes this fault.   Removing the entry allows amsn to work, however this isn't really a solution since we need the wins entry for windows name resolution on a network.

More details can be found at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5634953&postcount=17

[tastyracer]

I really want to use aMSN but also need WINS entry in nsswitch.conf to enable home networking without resorting to static IP addresses. Segmentation fault still occurs at login (using standard Karmic repository versions) so am stuck at the moment.
Does anyone know if there's a workaround for this? I find it hard to believe I'm the only aMSN user who also relies on WINS

[kakaroto]

hi, welcome to the forums,
well, we can't do anything about that, it's not that aMSN doesn't support wins, it's wins that crashes, the dns resolution library crashes, The crash is in :
0xb68fd835 in _nss_wins_gethostbyname_r () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
so the bug should be fixed in libnss_wins.so