I just did an emerge -uD world and now have an almost unusable desktop, so my small business on which I depend is out of business until I get this fixed!
I started the emerge and went out for a while and when I came back (mozilla-thunderbird was building, package 21 of about 48) I noted that things were running _VERY_ slowly. Some commands executed quickly, but some, such a 'sudo su - root' took several minutes to execute. The emerge of Thunderbird was taking so long that I aborted it and rebooted the system. When the system boots, I get to: * Starting udevd ... and then I get: udevd[554]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://127.0.0.1: Can't contact LDAP server [the LDAP server doesn't start until much later in the boot process] ... and the same message repeats many times after successively longer timouts, and finally the boot proceeds. Subsequently the ALSA module hangs for several minutes while loading (there is no sound when the system finally comes up. Likewise, samba takes forever to start, as does dbus and the ldap-server and several other services, and finally starting the X server takes several minutes. The box takes about 45 minutes to boot up! Once it's up, emerging anything takes ages and ages, so I'm pretty well stuck and hozed. I have ldap enabled in my USE spec in /etc/make.conf, but why is udevd depending on it? It's not in IUSE for the udev ebuild. I've been using gentoo for several years, and have been scared that something like this would happen, that the system would screw itself and leave me with no way out. The only thing that could have been worse here would have been if it had happened on one of my servers, which are also running gentoo. I'd be losing customers right and left. Can anyone please advise me on how to straighten this mess out? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | | -- [email protected] mailing list
