> Nice backtrace.

Thanks :)

> Hm, this looks like a bad gethostbyname_r() in your glibc. What version of
> glibc do you have? (ldd --version shows it). Can you try to increase the

ldd (GNU libc) 2.2.4

> initial value of the variable step_size? (It is within the
my_getaddrinfo()
> function a few lines above the gethostbyname_r() call). It starts at 200
and
> gets increased if found out to be too small, but apparently this crash
happens
> on the first run (as 'buflen' shown above is 180). It seems as if the
function
> crashes instead of returning ERANGE.

Ok I tried increasing it from 200 to 2000and then recompiled/installed and
it still seg faulted and then I tried to increase it to 20000 and still
same. Here is the trace:

Starting program: /usr/local/bin/curl www.google.com

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x219e in ?? () at eval.c:88
88 }
(gdb) bt
#0 0x219e in ?? () at eval.c:88
#1 0x4003da0e in _nss_files_gethostbyname_r () at eval.c:88
#2 0x402ad11b in __gethostbyname_r (name=0x8081b50 "www.google.com",
resbuf=0x8082220, buffer=0x8082234 "",
    buflen=19980, result=0xbffff3d4, h_errnop=0xbffff3d8) at
../nss/getXXbyYY_r.c:200
#3 0x4001cf71 in my_getaddrinfo (data=0x806d080, hostname=0x8081b50
"www.google.com", port=80,
    bufp=0xbffff414) at hostip.c:619
#4 0x4001cd0c in Curl_resolv (data=0x806d080, hostname=0x8081b50
"www.google.com", port=80) at hostip.c:253
#5 0x4002808d in CreateConnection (data=0x806d080, in_connect=0xbffff6f8)
at url.c:2675
#6 0x400284b4 in Curl_connect (data=0x806d080, in_connect=0xbffff6f8) at
url.c:2822
#7 0x40031821 in Curl_perform (data=0x806d080) at transfer.c:1561
#8 0x40031c10 in curl_easy_perform (curl=0x806d080) at easy.c:245
#9 0x804c9c5 in operate (config=0xbffffa08, argc=2, argv=0xbffffb94) at
main.c:2879
#10 0x804ccff in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffffb94) at main.c:2985
#11 0x401e987f in __libc_start_main (main=0x804ccd0 <main>, argc=2,
ubp_av=0xbffffb94,
    init=0x8048dd0 <_init>, fini=0x804e55c <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000c130
<_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffb8c)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129
(gdb)

Clues?? :(

> > > Lovely. :-(
> >
> > Yeah I know I hate having to not being able to use updated stuff :(
>
> I was also thinking about the fact that these guys obviously have found
some
> kind of bug in later curl versions that we don't know about and thus
haven't
> fixed.

Most likely but I can not get the older versions to work so the newer would
most likely not work alone either even if they supported it.

Thanks,
John

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