start_udev and network

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Wed Sep 21 11:08:51 UTC 2005


redhat at olen.net wrote:
> Can't find anything i bugzilla, but in case this is well known, I'll
> post here first.
> 
> I am usually following devel/rawhide quite tight, but for a week or two
> I have not upgraded nor reboted, so I am not sure exactly when this
> happened.
> 
> But now it seems like udev might need network access if nsswitch is set
> up with authentication from ldap:
> 
> passwd:     files ldap
> shadow:     files ldap
> group:      files ldap
> 
> This leads to the following errors:
> 
> Sep 19 15:48:36 ws21 udevstart[2042]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP
> server (sleeping 4 seconds)...
> Sep 19 15:48:40 ws21 udevstart[2042]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP
> server (sleeping 8 seconds)...
> 
> And there it hangs until i ^C "udev_start".
> (Ofcourse start_udev can't access the network so early in the boot
> process).

grrr... this seems to be glibc and getpwnam(3)




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