https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249686#c42 --- Comment #42 from Rainer Klier <kra@ecolog.at> 2007-07-20 05:40:01 MST --- this is my /etc/nsswitch.conf: passwd: compat group: compat hosts: files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns networks: files dns services: files protocols: files rpc: files ethers: files netmasks: files netgroup: files nis publickey: files bootparams: files automount: files nis aliases: files i never change that file. after reading this bug-report i tried the following: because under 10.2 there is no special nss-mdns-32-bit package, but there are two mutually-excluding nss-mdns packages for 32bit and 64bit (both used from the GNOME:STABLE repo from repo-server), i first installed the 32bit version. then i copied the files /lib/libnss_mdns* to save place /tmp/libnss_mdns32Bit. then i installed the 64bit version of nss-mdns. then i copied back the files from /tmp/libnss_mdns32Bit to /lib. so after this i had BOTH versions of nss-mdns installed. 64bit versions under /lib64 and 32bit versions under /lib. after this everything works again. so in fact i "virtually" installed the non-existent nss-mdns-32bit package. and because the solution/workaround works the same way, i think this bug has really the same cause. but why did this not happen before latest update? the question is: is this workaround a better or worse solution than editing the file /etc/nsswitch.conf? should i change the /etc/nsswitch.conf? another thing is, that i don't have installed mDNSResponder. i have installed mDNSResponder-lib and mDNSResponder-lib-32bit, but not mDNSResponder. should i remove the package nss-mdns and install mDNSResponder instead? whould this be a better solution than having nss-mdns-32bit-libs installed? and whould opening a bug be succesfull, because i got this bug only because of updating gnome and firefox with repos from repo-server, and i think these update-versions are not supported.... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.