[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#370569: dbus enabled apps fail for LDAP user

[Tim Dijkstra (tdykstra)]

Package: dbus
Version: 0.61-5
Severity: important


For a certain class of users on my systems apps that need dbus to start 
fail to do so. The symptom is as follows:

test at knolraap:~$ hal-device
error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: No reply within specified time

The user test only lives on a LDAP server, it has no /etc/passwd entries. If I add
an entry there all is well. So this sounds like a timeout issue, but if I read the
source correctly (which could very well not be the case;) dbus_bus_get in the end calls 
_dbus_pending_call_new with a timeout value -1 which means 25 seconds.
And the hal-device commands only takes a short while to complete, certainly not 25s. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.6
Locale: LANG=nl_NL at euro, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL at euro (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to nl_NL.utf8)

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.87           Add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils               2.16.1         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.3.6-7        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-2               0.61-5         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                 1.95.8-3.2     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libice6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.0-4      X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.0-6      X11 client-side library
ii  lsb-base                  3.1-8          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

dbus recommends no packages.

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