Hi!
I was tempted to set the severity of bug 47289 higher than
normal but I feel I might offend someone doing that,
therefore I just write this mail.
IMHO this bug is very serious as it broke my whole system
and I had no idea it has something to do with nscd.
(In fact I thought it is an SCSI hardware problem as the
error appeared just after I changed my hardware setup. But after
checking SCSI termination, compiling some kernels and bying a new
SCSI controller I started to examine the software again ..)
I write this mail for two reasons:
1) To emphasize this bug is really important: It blocked many parts
of my system and I had no idea where to look. I did not even know
there is a thing like the "Name Service Switch" in libc. I just
installed many LDAP related packages to see what possibilities I
have to share a user database across a network. Libnss-ldap brought
nscd and my system was not working any longer. I found the bug
"by accident" when I used strace and noticed "ls -al" blocked while
reading from a file socket with "nscd" in its name.
Admittedly most people won't install nscd without knowing what it
does. But if someone does like I did he has a broken system and
no idea where to start looking for the error.
And in any circumstances nscd can stop large parts of a system.
2) To offer help. Is there anything I can do to track this error down?
Greetings,
Florian
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