nscd frequent assertion failure...

[Florian Weimer]

* Daniel J. Blueman:

> glibc 2.8's name-service cache daemon (nscd) is seeing frequent
> assertion failure [1], at least in Ubuntu 8.10, due to internal
> consistency checks failing (memory object misalignment). Right now in
> the 8.10 Intrepid cycle, this is 100% of the crashes I've had over the
> last week's workflow.

(Trimming the Cc: list, AFAIK the Ubuntu lists restrict posting to
subscribers.)

I think you should try to get a coredump with debug symbols.  This
shouldn't be too hard.  Valgrind might change the shape of the heap,
so the consistency checks may not trigger.