Inconsistent Internet access

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 13:10:52 -0400,
  Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> So, my guess is, that at least for me, if you don't already have
> nss-mdns for 64 bit on a 64 bit system, then install something that
> pulls in the i586 version, like I did with chrome, you will have trouble
> due to that line in nsswitch.conf

There was a wine version in updates testing about a week ago that triggered
the same issue. There is at least one bug report for it.

It seems like what is wanted is that the i586 version depends on the
x86_64 version on x86_64 systems. But I don't know if there is a reasonable
way to do that.