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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:38 AM, daid kahl <daidxor@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I did a large update a week or two ago (400 packages); system is ~x86. |
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> It took awhile and needed some cleaning, but in general everything |
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> went smoothly. |
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> However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding |
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> slowly. This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration |
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> files, but this week it's acting up again. Before it was just su and |
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> sudo that I noticed as slow (authentication takes around 20 seconds). |
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> But now even logins are delayed (xdm or command line). |
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> As an example that I timed: su, it takes 20 seconds for the password |
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> prompt to appear, and over 60 seconds for the login to authenticate |
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> (assuming the correct password...it is a little faster to fail). |
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> What package(s) are most likely to be responsible for logins and |
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> su/sudo? I tried rebuilding (and also downgrading) pam, and I'm |
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> trying some other things now, but no luck so far. |
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> I'm happy to provide any information, but this kind of problem is |
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> nothing I have experience with, so I have no sense of what else to |
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> mention. |
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Recently Thomas Drueke posted about a similar problem under KDE. His |
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solution(s) were to unset DISPLAY in the short term, and to use KDM |
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(rather than startkde) in the long term. Maybe that'll help give you |
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some clues to solve your problem too. |
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