nsscache was an attempt at solving the issue... even without nscd installed, or 
nsscache, the issue happens extremely frequently. so far the only fix i have is 
to do everything with hard-coded GID/UIDs ... 

On Nov 1, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 02:10:23PM -0700, Matt Wise wrote:
>> 
>> On the systems we use 'files db ldap' as our nsswitch.conf priority,
>> and 'db' is a local copy of the ldap data using 'nsscache' on a
>> regular basis. Looking up a user should never fail.... and it doesnt
>> seem to when we log in and check by hand, so I don't know why puppet
>> is failing.
> 
> nsscache is probably at fault.  Try removing it from nsswitch on
> a machine which has shown this problem and then see how that affects
> things.
> 
> -- 
> Bruce
> 
> I must admit that the existence of Disneyland (which I know is real)
> proves that we are not living in Judea in AD 50. -- Philip K. Dick

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