[Bug 1024475] Re: libnss-ldap causes boot hang on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise

[Jcat-l]

This is still an issue on 14.04 LTS.

This was fixed ages ago with this change:

libnss-ldap (251-5.2) unstable; urgency=high

  * Change the init script policy. Instead of stopping libnss-ldap.init on
    clean shutdown (touching a file) and starting it after networking (rm-ing
    it), we touch the file in /lib/init/rw as soon as possible (right before
    udev is started, touching a file) and stop it after initial system bootup.
    This fixes both issues with /var being on a separate partition, and
    unclean shutdown where the file would not be created. (To make sure we
    don't get similar problems during shutdown, we create it in runlevels 0
    and 6 as before, but we don't assume it's still there when we boot, since
    it's on a tmpfs now.) (Closes: #375077)

..but at some point got removed with this change:

libnss-ldap (259-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove old kluge /etc/init.d/libnss-ldap


Not totally sure what was supposed to be replacing that "kluge", maybe it was the "nss_initgroups_ignoreusers" thing, but it's not working currently, that's for sure.
Boot time is well over 2 mins atm, verses about 5 seconds with the ldap entry removed for groups in nsswitch.conf

Someone must have some ideas for this.


Cheers,
jcat

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