Hi! Thanks for the hint! Unfortunately that does not help me, but it did inspire me to search a little further:
It seems that in my case, the problem is not really related to the network interface or dhcp itself - those are working fine. The problem seems to lie somewhere with nm-applet, dhcdbd, dbus, and (possibly) nss. Here's how the problem manifests: 1. Boot with Network unplugged 2. Log in - nm-applet will show up with a warning icon: no network 3. Connect network 4. nm-applet will spin seemingly forever, waiting for a dhcp assigned network address 5. in reality, the network address has been assigned, and the network interface is up 6. nm-applet will periodically bring the network interface up and down, apparently trying to resolve the problem 7. meanwhile /var/log/messages is full of stuff like: "dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eht0.dbus.get.******" 8. and /var/log/auth fills up with: dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed to bind to ldap server... etc.... 9. system is very slow and unreactive from that point on So on a hunch, I set the bind_timeout to 1 (1 second) in /etc/ldap.conf - this has not exactly fixed, but massivly improved the situation: Now when I plug in the network nm-applet only spins for about 15seconds, before correctly showing a connected LAN. It seems to be trying to get information via nss_ldap - the auth log shows continuous connection attempts while nm-applet is spinning. When nm-applet stops spinning, the nss connection attempts stop, and the dbus messages are spit out to /var/log/messages. So it seems to me the problem lies in how the system is trying to access network information - mysterious, since I have nss setup only to serve users and groups from ldap, not hosts, domains and networks. I will investigate this some more, including the nss setup and my pam setup for dbus. I'll keep you posted if I find anything, in the meantime, if anyone has any ideas, let me know! Regards from Vienna, Richard Unger -- Dhcdbd doesn't recognize permanent (-1) DHCP leases https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93360 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
