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... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
