On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 13:43 -0400, Adam McDougall wrote: > Michael Proto wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Ulrich Spörlein<u...@spoerlein.net> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 09.07.2009 at 16:13:25 +0300, Vlad Galu wrote: > >> > >>> I've stumbled upon this while installing postgres. In > >>> /etc/nsswitch.conf I had "group: cache files compat" and "passwd: > >>> cache files compat". Once I commented them out things started working > >>> again. Before the change, this is how it looked like: > >>> > >>> -- cut here -- > >>> [r...@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql > >>> -g 70 > >>> pw: group disappeared during update > >>> [r...@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql > >>> -g 70 > >>> pw: group 'pgsql' already exists > >>> [r...@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# > >>> -- and here -- > >>> > >>> Shouldn't 'files' be used upon a cache miss? If this is a PEBKAC, > >>> sorry for the noise. > >>> > >> Just a me too. This is most likely because nscd is also caching negative > >> lookups. The usual workaround would be to restart it using > >> /etc/rc.d/nscd restart > >> > >> > > A slightly lower-impact alternative would be to use "nscd -i passwd" > > to invalidate the password cache. > > > > > I was intending to report this soon as well (its been on my list for a > while) as a problematic > issue while installing ports. The other issue I had was Java would > crash immediately if I had > nscd running (configured to cache YP). I plan to report that soon if it > still happens with 1.6. > I probably tested with 1.4 or 1.5.
This is a known problem with nscd(8), see ports/125330 and bin/119695. If you have any further information (or even a patch) it's probably best to append it to the second of those PRs. Thanks, Gavin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
