[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#532670: Bug#532670: downgrading

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 08:25:38PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> 
>> Hmmm. What have you tried in an attempt to reproduce the bug? I can
>> reproduce it at will here, and I can also see clearly related problems
>> reproduced by people elsewhere:
>
>Could you please disable gdm for the time being, so that you can login on the
>console.

OK, done.

>I assume you have no network connection at this point, bug please double check.

Correct, I do not have working networking at boot: no DHCP lease and
no DHCP client that I can see running.

>As you are using LDAP/NIS (please attach you configuration, nsswich.conf etc.
>and if you use nscd/nslcd).

We're using nscd. Attached tarball contains the nsswitch.conf,
pam_ldap.conf and libnss_ldap.conf

>Then stop the running network-manager instance and start it with
>"NetworkManager --no-daemon" and attach the output.

It hangs showing just one line (see typescript output). After 5
minutes I got bored and killed it.

Script started on Thu 06 Aug 2009 13:49:36 BST
smcintyre4:~# NetworkManager --no-daemon
NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
Script done on Thu 06 Aug 2009 13:54:36 BST

>Does NM successfully acquire an IP address via DHCP?

Doesn't look like, no.

>If not, what happens if you disable LDAP/NIS in your nsswitch configuration
>(will probably also require a restart of dbus).

If I disable LDAP in nsswitch and reboot, NetworkManager gets a lease
from DHCP straight away.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
"Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt
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