Bug#532670: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#532670: Bug#532670: network manager causes system to fail to boot
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:56:30AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:10:23PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Do you use any kind of network login / ldap / nis etc? You've beaten me to it; I was about to follow up to myself to mention that. We've seen this using NIS on some machines, and again on newer ones where we're trying out LDAP too. My guess is, that it's a problem related to NSS, because network is not yet up when gdm is started. Could you try a small hack and add a sleep 30 to the network-manager init script, after the daemon has started, in order to give it some time to establish a network connection before gdm/X is started. Sure, I can give that a try tomorrow when I'm back in the office. I'm wondering how that might work, though: this is well before anybody even attempts to log in, i.e. before gdm displays the login box. I don't know if I made that clear before... OK, that didn't help at all I'm afraid. After the delay, the system continued on and hung in just the same way at gdm startup. Debugging further, running gdm under strace shows that the last useful thing it does is send AUTH EXTERNAL 30 via dbus. I'm looking at dbus now to see what's happening there. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com You can't barbecue lettuce! -- Ellie Crane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#532670: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#532670: Bug#532670: network manager causes system to fail to boot
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:10:23PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Do you use any kind of network login / ldap / nis etc? You've beaten me to it; I was about to follow up to myself to mention that. We've seen this using NIS on some machines, and again on newer ones where we're trying out LDAP too. My guess is, that it's a problem related to NSS, because network is not yet up when gdm is started. Could you try a small hack and add a sleep 30 to the network-manager init script, after the daemon has started, in order to give it some time to establish a network connection before gdm/X is started. Sure, I can give that a try tomorrow when I'm back in the office. I'm wondering how that might work, though: this is well before anybody even attempts to log in, i.e. before gdm displays the login box. I don't know if I made that clear before... OK, that didn't help at all I'm afraid. After the delay, the system continued on and hung in just the same way at gdm startup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#532670: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#532670: Bug#532670: network manager causes system to fail to boot
Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: Package: network-manager Version: 0.6.6-3 Severity: critical Rationale: system lockup [ This might not be a network-manager bug directly, but simply uninstalling it fixes the problem. ] On a whole range of newly-installed Lenny systems at work, we have a major problem that seems to be caused by network-manager. The system boots up and at starts gdm as normal. However, when gdm starts it simply hangs at the X stipple screen rather than switching to the default solid blue background. The mouse pointer responds, but keyboard input fails to do anything (no response to numlock, can't switch to a console). The box does not respond to pings either; we have no option but to power-cycle. If we purge network-manager and simply enable dhcp directly from /etc/network/interfaces then all works just fine. There doesn't seem to be anything useful in the logs that I can see... Do you use any kind of network login / ldap / nis etc? You've beaten me to it; I was about to follow up to myself to mention that. We've seen this using NIS on some machines, and again on newer ones where we're trying out LDAP too. My guess is, that it's a problem related to NSS, because network is not yet up when gdm is started. Could you try a small hack and add a sleep 30 to the network-manager init script, after the daemon has started, in order to give it some time to establish a network connection before gdm/X is started. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#532670: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#532670: Bug#532670: network manager causes system to fail to boot
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Do you use any kind of network login / ldap / nis etc? You've beaten me to it; I was about to follow up to myself to mention that. We've seen this using NIS on some machines, and again on newer ones where we're trying out LDAP too. My guess is, that it's a problem related to NSS, because network is not yet up when gdm is started. Could you try a small hack and add a sleep 30 to the network-manager init script, after the daemon has started, in order to give it some time to establish a network connection before gdm/X is started. Sure, I can give that a try tomorrow when I'm back in the office. I'm wondering how that might work, though: this is well before anybody even attempts to log in, i.e. before gdm displays the login box. I don't know if I made that clear before... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
