Hmm, as usual, sending email to the user list makes subsequent guesses have good affects.
Hard to say for certain, but at present, pam is on x86, and I rebuild most the dependencies I could find in the sudo ebuild (seemed a fine place to start looking for relevant packages, anyway). (pam 1.1.1-r2 is x86 and and 1.1.2 is ~x86 at present) I ran an emerge --oneshot --verbose --ask openldap cyrus-sasl pambase bison Or it could be gremlins... If the problem comes back (seems possible) I'll try to see if I can pinpoint the solution. ~daid On 12 October 2010 15:38, daid kahl <daid...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I did a large update a week or two ago (400 packages); system is ~x86. > It took awhile and needed some cleaning, but in general everything > went smoothly. > > However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding > slowly. This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration > files, but this week it's acting up again. Before it was just su and > sudo that I noticed as slow (authentication takes around 20 seconds). > But now even logins are delayed (xdm or command line). > > As an example that I timed: su, it takes 20 seconds for the password > prompt to appear, and over 60 seconds for the login to authenticate > (assuming the correct password...it is a little faster to fail). > > What package(s) are most likely to be responsible for logins and > su/sudo? I tried rebuilding (and also downgrading) pam, and I'm > trying some other things now, but no luck so far. > > I'm happy to provide any information, but this kind of problem is > nothing I have experience with, so I have no sense of what else to > mention. > > Cheers, > daid >