[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#532670: Bug#532670: Bug#532670: network manager causes system to fail to boot

[Steve McIntyre]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:56:30AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:10:23PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Do you use any kind of network login / ldap / nis etc?
>>>> 
>>>> You've beaten me to it; I was about to follow up to myself to mention
>>>> that. We've seen this using NIS on some machines, and again on newer
>>>> ones where we're trying out LDAP too.
>>>
>>>My guess is, that it's a problem related to NSS, because network is not yet up
>>>when gdm is started. Could you try a small hack and add a sleep 30 to the
>>>network-manager init script, after the daemon has started, in order to give it
>>>some time to establish a network connection before gdm/X is started.
>>
>>Sure, I can give that a try tomorrow when I'm back in the office. I'm
>>wondering how that might work, though: this is well before anybody
>>even attempts to log in, i.e. before gdm displays the login box. I
>>don't know if I made that clear before...
>
>OK, that didn't help at all I'm afraid. After the delay, the system
>continued on and hung in just the same way at gdm startup.

Debugging further, running gdm under strace shows that the last useful
thing it does is send "AUTH EXTERNAL 30" via dbus. I'm looking at dbus
now to see what's happening there.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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