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

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:49:45PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra (tdykstra) wrote:
> 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. 

I'm running various machines with ldap users and i never had any such problems
there. So it's not inherent to dbus with ldap. 

Does the following also cause a timeout?:
$ dbus-send --print-reply --system  --type=method_call  
  --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer  /  org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer.Ping

If so could you attach a strace of that command ? 


  Sjoerd
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