On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Matthias Kilian
<kili@outback.escape.de> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 02:38:08AM +0000, 4625 wrote:
>> >>>On first run and exit from X, I have 'Segmentation fault (core dumped)'
>> >>>(xauth.core).
> [...]
>> >How old is you X installation? Afaik this bug was fixed in march 09.
>> My X come with OpenBSD 4.5 distributive.
>
> The fix had been merged to the stable branch (OPENBSD_4_5) of
> xenocara, so just rebuild xauth from this branch.
>
> Or look for duplicate entries in your /etc/hosts and remove them.
>
> Ciao,
>        Kili
>
>

Instead of fixing Xenocara or other programs, the proper way to solve
this issue is to elliminate the possibility to have multiple records
of the same host in /etc/hosts file.

I was stunned to see that after installing fresh OpenBSD and
configuring and setting it up, I had several entries for 127.0.0.1 in
my hosts file without modifying it by hand. It is clearly a flaw in
OpenBSD or even standard Unix libraries.

So the patch for Xenocara is a quickhack instead of a fix for the problem.

If there are several entries of the same host in hosts file, then I
would expect misbehaving programs all over the place but unfortunately
only xauth was complaining