Bug 161185 - Dropped connections causes bash to hang on nss lookups
Summary: Dropped connections causes bash to hang on nss lookups
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nss_ldap
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-06-21 07:18 UTC by Enrico Scholz
Modified: 2008-02-17 02:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-02-17 02:56:24 UTC
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Description Enrico Scholz 2005-06-21 07:18:19 UTC
Description of problem:

When having an LDAP server which drops connections after a certain timeout, bash
will hang at actions like 'cd ~foo<tab>'. At this time, a lot of connections like

| tcp 1  0 192.168.46.2:57752   192.168.46.137:389          CLOSE_WAIT

are shown by netstat.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

nss_ldap-234-4
bash-3.0-31


How reproducible:

100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. setup NSS to use LDAP as passwd backend
2. setup the LDAP server to timeout after a certain time (e.g. 'idletimeout 900')
3. start a bash
4. type in 'cd ~foo' and press TAB
5. wait some time...
6. type in 'cd ~foo' and press TAB
  

Actual results:

bash hangs at step 6; 'strace' shows that it waits in a futex(2) syscalls.


Expected results:

bash expands 'foo' both in 4 and 6


Additional info:

nscd is NOT running; LDAP is not configured for TLS

Comment 1 Christian Iseli 2007-01-22 11:40:14 UTC
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.

Comment 2 petrosyan 2008-02-17 02:56:24 UTC
Fedora Core 4 is no longer maintained.

Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the
current Fedora release, please reopen this bug and assign it to the
corresponding Fedora version.


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