[Bug 488696] Re: syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]

[Steve Langasek]

This information does not belong in /etc/nsswitch.conf.  nsswitch.conf
is a configuration file for libc, for selecting between NSS modules;
autofs should not be relying on being able to stick its own
configuration settings in this file.  And base-files should not be
adding such non-standard config settings.  Marking as invalid for base-
files.

A proper autofs fix is to move this configuration information out of
/etc/nsswitch.conf entirely, so that its parser stops tripping over
perfectly valid libc configurations.

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Quantal)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]

Status in “autofs” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “autofs5” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “base-files” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “autofs5” source package in Precise:
  Confirmed
Status in “base-files” source package in Precise:
  Invalid
Status in “autofs” source package in Quantal:
  New
Status in “base-files” source package in Quantal:
  Invalid
Status in “autofs5” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: autofs5

  This is the error I get in syslog after autofs start. I have some
  issues with autofs not working, and that can be the case.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Nov 26 12:19:24 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: autofs5 5.0.4-3
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl:en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
  SourcePackage: autofs5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic i686
  XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2732): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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