Comment 15 for bug 282287

Adam J Richardson wrote:
> I'm also getting a lot of silent Firefox 3.0.3 SIGABRTs on Intrepid
> (32-bit desktop). The link of death doesn't work for me, though. I use
> the NoScript plugin so nothing Flash will load, but I can "temporarily
> allow all this page" (thus reloading the page) and no crash. Perhaps
> reloading doesn't trigger the crash condition?
>
> My video driver is (according to "Hardware Drivers", anyway): ATI/AMD
> proprietary FGLRX graphics driver.
>
> My GDB backtrace looks a lot like Stephen's:
>
> #0 0xb7f8f430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> #1 0xb7ce8880 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #2 0xb7cea248 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #3 0xaf7d75dd in talloc_free () from /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.1
> #4 0xaf9db289 in ?? () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #5 0xaf7d7621 in talloc_free () from /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.1
> #6 0xafa06758 in alloc_sub_basic () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #7 0xafa06d3f in talloc_sub_basic () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #8 0xaf946281 in ?? () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #9 0xaf9473f2 in lp_lockdir () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #10 0xafa00a75 in lock_path () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #11 0xaf99f767 in receive_unexpected () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #12 0xaf9a2375 in receive_nmb_packet () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #13 0xaf9a4e4d in name_query () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #14 0xaf942555 in _nss_wins_gethostbyname_r () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #15 0xaf942853 in _nss_wins_gethostbyname2_r () from /lib/libnss_wins.so.2
> #16 0xb7d82666 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #17 0xb7d84039 in getaddrinfo () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
> #18 0xb7bf66b9 in PR_GetAddrInfoByName () from /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
> #19 0xb71d8454 in ?? () from /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.3/libxul.so
> #20 0xb7c041e1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libnspr4.so.0d
> #21 0xb7f4a50f in start_thread () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0
> #22 0xb7d9e7ee in clone () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
>

hmm ... do you have some special nameserver? maybe wins? maybe using ipv6?