Package: udev Version: 0.080-1 Severity: wishlist
I've found a problem not caused by udev but triggered by its startup script that I believe could be documented on the udev README.Debian file, as that is the first place I would look for it. The problem is related to the glibc NSS configuration (/etc/nsswitch.conf) and the use of network enabled services to lookup user or group information. The problem is that udevd makes some user and group lookups when booting and if the nsswitch.conf uses services like nss_ldap or nis they try to contact the server until a timeout is reached (that is the documented behaviour and usually is right) but with the udev startup script happens for all the calls, as the network is still not configured. After all the timeouts udevd continues its execution, but the wait is so long that makes the user believe that something is broken with udevd. The solution I've found is to use a configuration like the following for the password and group sections of 'nsswitch.conf': passwd: files ldap [UNAVAIL=return] group: files ldap [UNAVAIL=return] With that, the ldap service is detected as not available and the user and groups lookups finish inmediatelly and udevd continues it's execution normally. -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2005-04-11 10:58 020_permissions.rules -> ../permissions.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-10-14 09:28 025_libgphoto2.rules -> ../libgphoto2.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-12-19 19:38 025_libsane.rules -> ../libsane.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-12-14 10:24 035_kino.rules -> ../kino.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-10-18 10:23 050_hal-plugdev.rules -> ../hal.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2004-12-13 18:53 cd-aliases.rules -> ../cd-aliases.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2004-12-13 18:53 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-08-23 12:17 z20_persistent.rules -> ../persistent.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-07-25 08:53 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-10-13 12:57 z55_hotplug.rules -> ../hotplug.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-08-23 12:47 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> ../alsa-utils.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-09-27 09:37 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2005-07-25 08:53 z70_hotplugd.rules -> ../hotplugd.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/fd0/dev /sys/block/hda/dev /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev /sys/block/hda/hda3/dev /sys/block/hda/hda4/dev /sys/block/hda/hda5/dev /sys/block/hda/hda6/dev /sys/block/hda/hda7/dev /sys/block/hda/hda8/dev /sys/block/hdc/dev /sys/block/ram0/dev /sys/block/ram10/dev /sys/block/ram11/dev /sys/block/ram12/dev /sys/block/ram13/dev /sys/block/ram14/dev /sys/block/ram15/dev /sys/block/ram1/dev /sys/block/ram2/dev /sys/block/ram3/dev /sys/block/ram4/dev /sys/block/ram5/dev /sys/block/ram6/dev /sys/block/ram7/dev /sys/block/ram8/dev /sys/block/ram9/dev /sys/class/drm/card0/dev /sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev /sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev /sys/class/input/input2/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev /sys/class/misc/hpet/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev /sys/class/printer/lp0/dev /sys/class/sound/adsp/dev /sys/class/sound/audio/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev /sys/class/sound/dsp/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D2c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D3c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D4p/dev /sys/class/sound/timer/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.2/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev /sys/class/usb/lp0/dev -- Kernel configuration: -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii initscripts 2.86.ds1-6 Standard scripts needed for bootin ii libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libselinux1 1.28-2 SELinux shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.0-14 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip ii makedev 2.3.1-79 creates device files in /dev ii sed 4.1.4-5 The GNU sed stream editor udev recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- Sergio Talens-Oliag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://people.debian.org/~sto/> Key fingerprint = 29DF 544F 1BD9 548C 8F15 86EF 6770 052B B8C1 FA69
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