[gentoo-user] Re: Slow Login, Sudo, etc.

[daid kahl]

Hmm, as usual, sending email to the user list makes subsequent guesses
have good affects.

Hard to say for certain, but at present, pam is on x86, and I rebuild
most the dependencies I could find in the sudo ebuild (seemed a fine
place to start looking for relevant packages, anyway).

(pam 1.1.1-r2  is x86 and and 1.1.2 is ~x86 at present)

I ran an emerge --oneshot --verbose --ask openldap cyrus-sasl pambase bison

Or it could be gremlins...

If the problem comes back (seems possible) I'll try to see if I can
pinpoint the solution.

~daid

On 12 October 2010 15:38, daid kahl <daidxor@×××××.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I did a large update a week or two ago (400 packages); system is ~x86.
>  It took awhile and needed some cleaning, but in general everything
> went smoothly.
>
> However, I noticed that logins, su, and sudo are all responding
> slowly.  This was all fixed and fine once I updated my configuration
> files, but this week it's acting up again.  Before it was just su and
> sudo that I noticed as slow (authentication takes around 20 seconds).
> But now even logins are delayed (xdm or command line).
>
> As an example that I timed: su, it takes 20 seconds for the password
> prompt to appear, and over 60 seconds for the login to authenticate
> (assuming the correct password...it is a little faster to fail).
>
> What package(s) are most likely to be responsible for logins and
> su/sudo?  I tried rebuilding (and also downgrading) pam, and I'm
> trying some other things now, but no luck so far.
>
> I'm happy to provide any information, but this kind of problem is
> nothing I have experience with, so I have no sense of what else to
> mention.
>
> Cheers,
> daid
>