Bug#420604: nscd: coredumps (ldap related?)

[Jameson Rollins <jrollins@phys.columbia.edu>]

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.