Description of problem: I have just performed a clean install of Fedora 9 on one of our production systems. We use NFS and NIS served by a Redhat server. NIS was set up using the gui at boot time, but no users are found. Fedora 8 machines in the same network with identical settings operate smoothly. service ypbind restart takes several seconds in the binding to NIS server step, but produces OK signs in all steps. Still, no users can be found or authenticated. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use the gui to set up the machine as an NIS client 2. Reboot or restart ypbind Actual results: No NIS users can be found or authenticated Expected results: login screen should provide a list of NIS users and they should be able to log into the machine and be authenticated Additional info:
I managed to get into similar situation. In my case I wanted the network to be brought up by /etc/rc.d/init.d/network (I am assuming that in Fedora 9 the network manager does all this since this was disabled in my system after installation). Anyway, I enabled the network script and after that ypbind stops working. It works properly if given -no-dbus flag.
Hi, Whatever happened to the network, was not well implemented. I am not that familiar with init scripts. How do I give the -no-dbus flag? Is it somewhere in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ypbind script? Will there be an official update about that? Thank you for your help!
Hi, please read bug #443409 comments and tell me, if it helps.
Vaggelis, I see there is no NIS user in gdm login menu... When you setup machine as NIS client, is NIS connectivity working? Are results of ypmatch, getent, ypwhich, ... commands same as you expect? If so, I think the problem is in gdm, not in NIS. Please try if it's possible to log in as one of NIS user you remember (using Other... gdm button). Jussi, /etc/init.d/network is disabled by default, NetworkManager is used. As it's mentioned in bug #443409 comments, if you use NetworkManager, it's good idea to put NETWORKWAIT=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network (otherwise it may happen, that ypbind starts before network is ready). In both cases, ypbind should work fine without "-no-dbus" flag, so please check it one more time and if I'm wrong, let me know details.
Hi Vitezslav, I did not complain yet about the gdm login screen, although I too cannot see any NIS users in the gdm login menu. When ypbind does work (see next paragraph of comments), the Other... button allows me to log in as an NIS user. Therefore there is an issue with gdm I guess. About ypbind now, I did try to add the NETWORKWAIT=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network, and removed the -no-dbus option from /etc/init.d/ypbind. Again, NIS failed to bind, the only difference being that this time at least it did give a FAIL message during boot. Without the NETWORKWAIT=yes option the "binding to NIS server" message was OK during boot time. So far, the only thing that makes NIS work for me is to just set the -no-dbus option in /etc/init.d/ypbind. Thank you for your help, Vaggelis P.S. I see that a previous submission by me has somehow not appeared in this bug. Probably messed up. Was reporting my success with the -no-dbus option.
One more thing... I have tried reseting priorities, per bug #443409, but that has predictably (mine is a clean install) changed nothing. Cheers, Vaggelis
Hi Vaggelis, See bug #447307. There was issue with timing in ypbind init script. You can try ypbind-1.20.4-5.fc9 from testing repository without -no-debus option again. If it fails, there should be message (ypbind - lost connection to d-bus or something similar) in /var/log/messages. I'll put gdm maintainer to CC, hope he'll tell us more about gdm related problem.
Same here (with old version). Perhaps ypbind should check whether NetworkManager is actually running (instead of dbus). Maybe by querying the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager dbus name?
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