After modifying the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to this: hosts: files dns ldap udev has problems during system startup. The last line seen is: Populating /dev with device nodes ... and then it hangs for some time. Afterwards it finally continues as if nothing happened, but apparently some devices are missing, like some drives /dev/sda* so the system cannot fully start. This is a little bit similar to bug 99564. It happens both with udev 068 and 070. Needless to mention that my LDAP configuration is fully functional and if I modify the hosts line when the system is up and running, most of programs appear to be resolving the hosts through LDAP correctly. I'm not sure whether it is an udev or glibc bug, but anyway udev/glibc appears to try to lookup hosts when the system didn't get to the point when the network is functional yet. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2. 6.14-ck1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-ck1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/ share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb / usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/mnt/distfiles/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://10.0.0.1/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aalib alsa arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl directfb dv eds emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal ldap lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl plotutils png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl speex spell ssl tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype-fonts type1- fonts udev usb userlocales vorbis winbind wmf xine xml2 xmms xpm xv xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99564 ***
