On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Package: network-manager >> Version: 0.6.6-3 >> Severity: critical >> Rationale: system lockup >> >> [ This might not be a network-manager bug directly, but simply >> uninstalling it fixes the problem. ] >> >> On a whole range of newly-installed Lenny systems at work, we have a >> major problem that seems to be caused by network-manager. The system >> boots up and at starts gdm as normal. However, when gdm starts it >> simply hangs at the X stipple screen rather than switching to the >> default solid blue background. The mouse pointer responds, but >> keyboard input fails to do anything (no response to numlock, can't >> switch to a console). The box does not respond to pings either; we >> have no option but to power-cycle. >> >> If we purge network-manager and simply enable dhcp directly from >> /etc/network/interfaces then all works just fine. There doesn't seem >> to be anything useful in the logs that I can see... > >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. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Dasmohapatra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org