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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi2402@××××.fr>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Desktop nearly unbootable!! Need HELP!!
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:08:14
Message-Id: 44892BCD.8030305@free.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Desktop nearly unbootable!! Need HELP!! by Lindsay Haisley
1 Lindsay Haisley wrote:
2 > Seems that I'm not the only one with this problem. There are several fixes
3 > which collectively seem to put things back to normal. See
4 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99564
5
6 Workarounds are suggested in the bug you pointed out. Just comment out
7 the udev entries that use non-exsting groups such as "tpm".
8
9 On the forums, several people made shell scripts that switched between
10 two nsswitch.conf during bootup and after. This really is an ugly hack.
11
12 Another option is to put timeouts in ldap.conf. It's barely documented
13 but someone pointed this out in the forums.
14
15 > This is really nasty. Had it happened on one of my servers, one of which runs
16 > gentoo, it would have cost me customers!
17
18 Thus the need to try things out before updating production servers :)
19 Safe business practice ihmo, although this bug really a PITA.
20
21 I read someplace this was going to be fixed in later versions of
22 nss_ldap. Let's hope things move faster than they have so far.
23
24 Hope you can find a solution,
25
26 Rémi Cardona
27
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