On Mar 3, 2015, at 18:49 , Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Mar 3, 2015 8:49 AM, "P. Larry Nelson" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am seeing a bizarre bug where an SL6.x system hangs on either >> shutdown or reboot at the point where it wants to shutdown the >> loopback interface. [...] >> [ok, here is where it becomes bizarre] >> Modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to switch the order of "files nis" to >> "nis files" for passwd, shadow, and group, as I've always done. >> Reboot. Boom! It hangs at loopback interface shutdown! > > I want to thank you for giving all the details of your testing. I would > like to use it as a future example of how to be constructive and helpful to > other people needing help.
Indeed. > So have you looked at nscd any? Does having nscd turned on or off alter > this problem. Also what is in hosts and is the NIS server listed. Thanks And are you sure it's only passwd/group/shadow you set to "nis files"? Nothing else, in particular not hosts or ethers? Interesting issue ;-)
