Hi folks, monday's dist-upgrade of unstable was a total disaster.
1) Konqueror crashing on every page. This was due to a libc bug,
downgrading to an earlier version fixes this behavior.
2) MySQL complaining about an empty root password. Even downgrading
three versions didn't help and I don't have an older version. Looks
like I will have to dump all my databases (luckily user accounts
still work) and rebuild the account information.
3) Now comes the mystery. The system needs ages for a user login.
After I have entered the password, I get the motd and the "No Mail"
message, but then I have to wait 30 seconds for a shell. Upon logout
I have to wait 1 minute for a new login prompt. This happens both
for user and for the root account. Also both at the console and when
starting KDE (the startup needs exactly 30 seconds more than usual).
A `su - user` is unaffected, though. I suspect a timeout somewhere,
but my /etc/nsswitch.conf is from January. :(
The magic SYS-RQ key stopped working. Alt+Printscreen will switch
consoles. :(
The system needs 8 (eight!) minutes to shutdown. After two minutes
the initial
INIT: sending processes the TERM signal
message appears, then nothing happens for six more minutes. Then the
system shuts down.
No messages in the syslog, too. :(
This behavior is extremely annoying. Currently I switch the system off
by hitting the big red button. Luckily all file system except the root
are served by NFS, so things could be a lot worse.
*Any* ideas how to fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
TIA,
Viktor
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Viktor Rosenfeld
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
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