Marking as "Fixed released" based on DTK's comment (with guidance from Luka).
** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released -- netgroup: nis in nsswitch.conf causes libc6 to fail and programs like sudo or rpc.mountd to crash https://launchpad.net/bugs/49677 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs