On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:10:23PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >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...
OK, that didn't help at all I'm afraid. After the delay, the system continued on and hung in just the same way at gdm startup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Mature Sporty Personal More Innovation More Adult A Man in Dandism Powered Midship Specialty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
