Your message dated Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:11:13 -0400
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and subject line Bug#393283: coreutils: 'chmod' unnecessarily calls into name
services, breaking bootup with ldap
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5
Severity: important
Actually a critical bug as it prevents bootup. On the other hand,
it probably don't affect that many people yet.
The problem is that this command:
chmod 0:0 filename
will do a completely unnecessary call into the name service switch.
This is unnecessary as the user and group is provided numerically.
It is of course necessary with "chmod username:groupname file"
but that is a different case.
This hangs the machine booting, because:
1. A xserver script provided by debian does exactly this chmod thing
2. The system uses openldap as its user database
3. openldap isn't started yet so chmod blocks forever.
As a workaround, I have nsswitch.conf set up to try the standard
files before contacting the ldap server. This gives me a small
performance penalty on all lookups but the machine boots.
Looking up names is unnecessary when the uid:gid is numeric already,
it'd be nice if this was eliminated. ldap is a nice way of
running a centralized user database after all.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-rc5-mm1
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libselinux1 1.30.28-2 SELinux shared libraries
coreutils recommends no packages.
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On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:02:54PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
Severity: important
please don't abuse bug severities; that's a ridiculous categorization
for a local configuration error.
As a workaround, I have nsswitch.conf set up to try the standard
files before contacting the ldap server.
That's how it should be. This also allows critical system operations to
continue in the event of a network interruption.
This gives me a small
performance penalty on all lookups but the machine boots.
In a sane configuration the data will be cached and the performance
penalty nonexistent.
Mike Stone
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