Bug#277767: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Progress on this bug report?

[Greg Matthews]

Alexander Gattin wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 01:42:09PM +0100, Greg Matthews wrote:
> 
>>I have no simple way of testing this as I have no host with this
>>version.

Alexander...

I've bitten the bullet and installed a fresh "testing" on my desktop. 
The bug does appear to be history on this platform. I cant reproduce it.

> Yeah, I understand you very well indeed. :)
> E.g. I have a problem with apcupsd-cgi on one
> Debian/testing host while everything is OK on 2 Sarge
> hosts. Maintainer of apcupsd-cgi suggested me to
> upgrade one stable host to testing and check whether
> the problem appears. ;)

I wasnt able to dist-upgrade, ended up with a slightly crippled box. So 
rest of day reinstalling and moving from evolution to thunderbird 
(evolution freezing too often - I had enough of it).

There was one ldap related issue which was to do with having "files 
ldap" as a lookup for protocols/services in /etc/nsswitch.conf. This 
causes udev to not start properly. I need to narrow it down to one of 
the above - my suspicion is "protocols". Obviously, udev not coming up 
makes the host pretty useless.

> OK. But I think it's not the right time to clese this
> bug. Christian, please wait a bit. I'll check the setup
> on sarge to see whether it has any security impact or
> not. Security-related bugs should be fixed in stable
> AFAIR.
> 
> And I have A LOT ;) of sarge hosts in Lab, all of them
> _will_ be promoted from NIS to LDAP, anyway. Contrary
> to Greg's situation, it's not a matter of hosts
> availability but availability of time...
> 

GREG

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