[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#532670: Bug#532670: Bug#532670: network manager causes system to fail to boot

[Michael Biebl]

Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>> Package: network-manager
>>> Version: 0.6.6-3
>>> Severity: critical
>>> Rationale: system lockup
>>>
>>> [ This might not be a network-manager bug directly, but simply
>>>   uninstalling it fixes the problem. ]
>>>
>>> On a whole range of newly-installed Lenny systems at work, we have a
>>> major problem that seems to be caused by network-manager. The system
>>> boots up and at starts gdm as normal. However, when gdm starts it
>>> simply hangs at the X stipple screen rather than switching to the
>>> default solid blue background. The mouse pointer responds, but
>>> keyboard input fails to do anything (no response to numlock, can't
>>> switch to a console). The box does not respond to pings either; we
>>> have no option but to power-cycle.
>>>
>>> If we purge network-manager and simply enable dhcp directly from
>>> /etc/network/interfaces then all works just fine. There doesn't seem
>>> to be anything useful in the logs that I can see...
>> Do you use any kind of network login / ldap / nis etc?
> 
> You've beaten me to it; I was about to follow up to myself to mention
> that. We've seen this using NIS on some machines, and again on newer
> ones where we're trying out LDAP too.

My guess is, that it's a problem related to NSS, because network is not yet up
when gdm is started. Could you try a small hack and add a sleep 30 to the
network-manager init script, after the daemon has started, in order to give it
some time to establish a network connection before gdm/X is started.

Cheers,
Michael
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