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@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 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
