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

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:06:06PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>
>>> 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.

Sure, I can give that a try tomorrow when I'm back in the office. I'm
wondering how that might work, though: this is well before anybody
even attempts to log in, i.e. before gdm displays the login box. I
don't know if I made that clear before...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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