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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