From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 Description of problem: When rs.sysinit executes `/sbin/pam_console_apply -r` it results in an error message like: getpwnam failed for ? Where ? results in the console output being garbled for the remainder of the startup process. This appears to be because we use NIS and ypbind has not been started prior to executing `/sbin/pam_console_apply -r` commenting out the relevent line in rc.sysinit fixes this problem for us. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-6.40-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Restart any machine that uses RH7.2 in conjunction with NIS services Additional info:
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