On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 05:16:02PM +0000, Will Woods wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 13:10 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > Ok, a little more playing around indicates that what happened to me was > > install nss-mdns i586 which happened when I installed chrome. > > > > Apparently this is what makes the change to /etc/nsswitch.conf IF I > > also install nss-mdns.x86_64, everything is fine. If I remove it, and > > leave the mdns line in /etc/nsswitch.conf most things (ssh, ftp, > > w3m--though not GUI browsers) break. If I comment out the mdns line in > > nsswitch.conf, all is well again. If I leave in the line and reinstall > > nss-mdns.x86_64 everything is fine. > > > > So, my guess is, that at least for me, if you don't already have > > nss-mdns for 64 bit on a 64 bit system, then install something that > > pulls in the i586 version, like I did with chrome, you will have trouble > > due to that line in nsswitch.conf > > wine (which is also 32-bit only) does the same thing: > [wwoods@metroid ~]$ rpm -q --requires wine-core | grep mdns > nss-mdns(x86-32) > > So look out for that if you've got wine or chromium installed on an > x86_64 system. It was mentioned on rawhidewatch last week: > http://rawhidewatch.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/ Interesting. I have had wine on this machine for awhile without that problem. (Maybe an older version that didn't pull in nss-mdns?) Or perhaps removing something else removed the 64 bit version. (Ah, I see that this has to do with a recent change.) Thanks for the tip. With a recent post on the forums about installing chrome, I should probably make a sticky there. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
