Recap: Networking problems with LDAP?
Oliver Falk
oliver at linux-kernel.at
Mon Aug 6 08:06:36 UTC 2007
On 08/06/2007 12:21 AM, Kelly wrote:
> I just want to re-mention this problem, because I saw it again yesterday and I
> think it's rather important to look into...
>
> Fedora 7 doesn't use network anymore; instead, it uses NetworkManager to
> create network connections at startup. That's fine, except for one thing;
> NetworkManager needs DBus to be running to start, and DBus won't start unless
> the system can get all the logins at that point. There's no problem if all
> logins are local, but if they aren't (using LDAP or ActiveDirectory or
> something like that), then the DBus startup script hangs, then crashes out,
> which is no good.
>
> I tried moving NetworkManager up, but as I mentioned before, it requires DBus
> to already be running. That means that the system has to run the network
> init script if the system is using network logins, just so DBus can get the
> list of logins at startup. The problem completely disappeared when I
> reactivated the normal network init script.
[oliver at pils etc]$ grep dbus /etc/passwd; grep dbus ldap.conf
dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/sbin/nologin
nss_initgroups_ignoreusers root,ldap,named,avahi,haldaemon,dbus
I don't know if I added dbus myself or not, but this setup usually works.
-of
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