Bug#299051: exim4+libnss-ldap: Loops infinitely on startup

Florian Weimer Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, 299051@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:36:49 +0100


* Marc Haber:

> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:42:05PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> My best guess so far is that Exim closes all descriptors after
>> becoming a daemon, including the ones opened by libnss-ldap.
>
> exim by default only closes fds 0, 1 and 2, which kills the
> Debian-Installer (see #297607). So we have patched exim to close all
> fds on startup (debian/patches/10_daemon_close_fds.dpatch) for ages.

Antonio, could you try and see what happens if you back out this
patch?