Bug#729986: libnss-mysql-bg: Patch 04_shadow.diff Introduces Lock Acquisition Hang

Package: libnss-mysql-bg Version: 1.5-3+b1 Followup-For: Bug #729986 Hello, I also spend the whole day tracing back why rsync and chown were hanging up on some large directories. This must be related to this deadlock issue. Replacing libnss-mysql-bg with squeeze/libnss-mysql solved my problem.

Bug#729986: libnss-mysql-bg: Patch 04_shadow.diff Introduces Lock Acquisition Hang

Package: libnss-mysql-bg Version: 1.5-3+b1 Followup-For: Bug #729986 Confirmed here, I just lost two evenings tracing down a weird rsync issue at Gna(.org) down to this. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641404 sheds some light on the patch's purpose. I guess it was tested with

Bug#729986: libnss-mysql-bg: Patch 04_shadow.diff Introduces Lock Acquisition Hang

Package: libnss-mysql-bg Version: 1.5-3+b3 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.3 Hello, I have found that the Debian patch 04_shadow.diff to libnss-mysql-bg causes the library to hang under completely typical usage. I am using libnss-mysql-bg with chrooted SFTP as documented here: