Sorry, so I put pam back to ~x86 version without any further rebuilds, and I don't notice any trouble, so it doesn't seem related to pam at all (my email might imply that).
~daid On 12 October 2010 16:12, daid kahl <daid...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
